Cathal Crotty to be discharged from defence forces this week

Irish Defence Forces soldier, Cathal Crotty, (22), with an address at Parkroe Heights, Ardnacrusha, Co Clare, who received a three year suspended sentence for assaulting innocent woman Natasha O’Brien, (24), causing her harm, in an unprovoked attack on O’Connell Street, Limerick. 

A soldier who walked free from court last month despite being found guilty of beating a woman unconscious in a "vicious" street attack has been discharged from the defence forces.

Private Cathal Crotty, who beat Natasha O’Brien unconscious, is leaving the Defence Forces on Thursday.