Kyle Hayes avoids jail for violent disorder at Limerick nightclub

Judge Sheehan said an 'immediate custodial sentence was not necessary'

Kyle Hayes was also ordered to pay €10,000 compensation to Cillian McCarthy. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

Five-time All-Ireland winning Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes, who was convicted of two counts of violent disorder after a young man was attacked inside and outside a nightclub, has avoided jail after being handed a two year suspended sentence.

Hayes, 25, of Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, had pleaded not guilty to two violent disorder charges and one charge of assault causing harm to Cillian McCarthy, 25.