Sex assault man said he ‘was just falling forward’

A young woman working at a nightclub on New Year’s Eve testified yesterday that a man grabbed her bum and her breast and then smiled smugly at her.

Kieran O’Donovan, aged 28, denied the sexual assault on January 1, 2015, and claimed at Cork Circuit Appeals Court that he stumbled after drink and that it was accidental and not sexual.

O’Donovan was convicted and sentenced to three months by Cork District Court but appealed the conviction and sentence to Cork Circuit Appeals Court yesterday.