Cork woman who woke to find burglar in bedroom was repeatedly struck with travel mug

A middle-aged woman woke to find a young neighbour going through her bedroom and he struck her eight times in the side of the head with a metal travel mug on her bedside locker.

That was the allegation made when Edmond O’Sullivan, 28, applied to be released on bail charges of burglary and assault causing harm to the householder.