'They beat me like they wanted me dead,' man assaulted by Kyle Hayes's brothers tells court

Brothers 'lured' their childhood friend to a house where they beat him with a hurley and a wrench 

Cian Hayes of Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, had pleaded guilty to assault causing harm. File picture: Brendan Gleeson

A former minor Limerick footballer and national athletics champion who was lured to a savage beating by two brothers of All-Star hurler Kyle Hayes, told a sentencing court today: “They beat me like they wanted me dead”.

Ciaran Ryan, Pallaskenry, Co Limerick, fought back tears as he told how Cian Hayes and Daragh Hayes, who he had grown up with and played GAA with at the Kildimo Pallaskenry club, left him afraid for his life.