Kilkenny attacks: Man jailed for three years after DPP appeals suspended sentence

A father-of-four who received a wholly suspended sentence after stabbing one man and violently attacking six others in two "extreme" unprovoked attacks has been jailed for three years following a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

In November 2010, John Donovan pleaded guilty at Kilkenny Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing serious harm to Darragh Nolan and assaulting three other individuals on High Street Kilkenny on January 17, 2004.