Romanian national who killed Canadian tourist in Dublin with 'full force running kick' to head jailed

Ionut Danca pleaded guilty last year to the unlawful killing of Neno Dolmajian

Canadian national Neno Dolmajian was assaulted on June 23, 2024, in Dublin and died nine days later having been treated at the Intensive Care Unit of the Mater Hospital. File picture

A Romanian national who killed a Canadian tourist in Dublin city centre by “brazenly” delivering a “full force running kick” straight to his head has been jailed for five and a half years.

Sentencing 25-year-old Ionut Danca at the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul McDermott said this was an attack on a defenceless man, who was lying prone on the ground under the influence of alcohol and was no threat to anyone: