'Not a day' when farmer doesn't regret hitting child with branch

Judge O’Leary adjourned sentencing until October 6 for a probation report and said that the probation service might organise counselling for the defendant.

A Kerry farmer struck his ten-year-old daughter nine or ten times with the branch of a tree and today he said there wasn’t a day when he did not regret it.

His daughter no longer wants to have anything to do with him and he only sees his other child against a background where he and his wife had separated prior to the incident.