'We are lost without our hero': Cork man discovered he had terminal cancer after stabbing

Patrick O’Sullivan, 75, of Kilnap Place, Farranree, Cork, has been jailed for 10 years for an unprovoked attack on Cormac Daly, 57, in a Cork pub on July 20, 2020

Stabbing victim Cormac Daly lost a kidney and part of his colon in the knife attack. Picture: iStock

The innocent victim of a vicious and violent afternoon stabbing outside a pub in Cork city found out for the first time in hospital – as surgeons operated to save his life – that he had an underlying cancer that would take his life just five months later.

Now the 75-year-old man who stabbed him – resulting in the loss of a kidney and the surgical removal of part of the victim’s colon – has been jailed for 10 years.