Woman gets suspended sentence for broken bottle assault

A mother of two who cut the shoulder blade of a pregnant woman with a broken bottle over some “imagined grievance” has been given a two year suspended sentence.

Niamh Duggan (aged 31) of Russell Lawns, Russell Square, Tallaght, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal to assault causing harm to Ms Melissa Payne at the Abberly Court Hotel, also in Tallaght on June 11, 2010.