Hotel worker jailed for 'vicious assault' in Cork of former work colleague

The judge imposed two concurrent nine-month sentences on Nicholas O’Brien on the two counts of assault causing harm. File picture: Larry Cummins

A woman was the victim of a “vicious assault” by a former work colleague at a staff function in the hotel where they worked and now the assailant has been jailed for nine months for this and another assault on the same night.

Judge Olann Kelleher imposed the jail term on Nicholas O’Brien of O’Mahony Square, Blackpool, Cork, as the 28-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges of assault causing harm. Judge Kelleher noted that the man who was assaulted was knocked unconscious and that the attack on the woman was vicious.