Cork man who used slash-hook, hurley in shop attack stabbed later that night

'He admitted his involvement in the incident and accepted he was one of the assailants, garda tells court

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said that in all the circumstances, he would impose a nine-month sentence on O’Leary. File picture: iStock

No statement of complaint was ever made to gardaí by a man who was attacked in a shop by a man wielding a slash-hook and a hurley — later that night the attacker was himself the victim of a stabbing.

Colin O’Leary, of Belfort, Rossa Avenue, Bishopstown, Cork, who is originally from Carrigaline, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to another man at Centra on Curraheen Rd, Bishopstown, on May 15, 2019.