Justice Minister and Cork stab victim discuss need for victims' rights advocate

Sinéad O’Leary was left for dead in a motiveless attack in which her best friend, Nichola Sweeney, was murdered in Rochestown, Co Cork, in 2002

Sinéad O'Leary survived the attack in which her best friend Nichola Sweeney was killed. Picture: Denis Minihane

The Minister for Justice has agreed with a woman who was stabbed more than 20 times in a vicious knife attack that killed her best friend, that a victims’ rights advocate should be appointed to the new parole board.  

Sinead O’Leary was left for dead in a motiveless attack in which her best friend, Nichola Sweeney, was murdered on her bedroom floor in Rochestown, Co Cork in 2002.