Man who took part in assault in Cork city centre avoids jail

Daniel Quilligan, 20, of the halting site, Little Island, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault causing harm and one of engaging in violent disorder

The two injured parties were walking home from the Paul Street area to get a taxi on St Patrick’s Street when they walked via Opera Lane and were attacked on January 6, 2019. File picture: Larry Cummins

People should be safe from cowardly attacks when they walk through Cork city centre, a Circuit Court judge declared.

Judge Helen Boyle was imposing sentence on a young man for the part he played in an attack on two middle-aged men walking from a pub to get a taxi home when they were set upon, outnumbered and attacked.