Man gets four years for violent robbery that left student with broken eye socket and nose

A student suffered multiple facial fractures when two men mugged him in a side street in Cork city and one of the assailants has been jailed for four years.

Aaron Breen, formerly of Meadowbrook, Glanmire, Co Cork, and now living at Greenwood Estate in Togher, Cork, was sentenced by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin to five years with the last year suspended.