Suspended sentence for knock-out blow to fellow student outside city night spot

Judge had remanded accused in custody for two weeks 'to open his eyes to reality of what was facing him'

A college student who spent the past fortnight in jail pending sentence for a single knock-out blow to another student outside a Cork City night spot was released and given a suspended jail term.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said he had remanded the young man — who was never in trouble before or since this incident — in custody “to open his eyes to the reality of what was facing him if he continued with this type of behaviour”.