Pensioner who stabbed man in unprovoked attack outside Cork pub has sentence cut

The victim lost a kidney and part of his colon as a result of the attack and was diagnosed with cancer which was discovered when surgeons carried out emergency surgery to treat his injuries

Mr Justice McCarthy said the court must have regard to the fact that it cannot, to coin a colloquial term, "throw away the key". File picture: iStock

A pensioner who stabbed a 57-year-old man outside a Cork city pub in a "vicious" and "unprovoked assault" has had his sentence reduced by two years by the Court of Appeal.

Reducing the sentence from 10 years to eight years on Tuesday, the three-judge court said it must not "throw away the key" on the 76-year-old.