Intermediate Cork hurler gets suspended two-year jail term for 'nasty assault'

An intermediate Cork hurler who spent two months remanded in prison for an assault on another man and a woman in Cork city centre was given a fully suspended two-year jail term.

Aaron Hannon of 10 Liam Healy Road, Fairhill, Cork, pleaded guilty last year at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to a charge of assault causing harm to a man and a woman at Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork, on October 16, 2016.