Natasha O'Brien: 'Keep coming forward because we’re only going to make an impact'

Natasha O’Brien says she 'felt completely alone after her ordeal last week in court, but is heartened by the level of support she has received

Natasha O'Brien: 'Now, that I have the nation backing me, it’s amazing.'

Natasha O’Brien has described how the friends of the soldier who viciously attacked her on a Limerick street did not attempt to restrain him, and the assault only ended after a man who heard her friend scream for help intervened.

Last week, a court heard that Cathal Crotty, a serving soldier in the Irish Defence Forces, beat Ms O’Brien unconscious in an unprovoked street attack in 2022, and boasted about it afterwards on social media. Crotty walked free from a court last Wednesday after receiving a fully suspended jail term.