Man jailed for ‘unprovoked assault’

A man walking home from his local pub was assaulted by a man armed with two Stanley knives in an attack described by the sentencing judge as a vicious and unprovoked assault on an innocent man.

Conor Greaney of 30 Fairfield Meadows, Upper Fairhill, Cork, was sentenced by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin to five years with half of it suspended at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. He pleaded guilty to the charge of assault causing serious harm to Alan Keane at Glenryan Road, Cork, on May 16 2019.