Three front teeth were knocked out by a punch to a man who was out socialising during a jazz weekend after the assailant came to the mistaken conclusion that the victim deliberately tripped him up at a pub.<\/p>\n
Kevin O\u2019Flynn, aged 30, of Brookvale, Banduff, Ballyvolane, Cork, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to the other man on October 29, 2023.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Kieran O\u2019Sullivan said the accused pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to a 44-year-old man after midnight on what was a jazz festival weekend.<\/p>\n
Socialising<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 44-year-old injured party was out socialising in the Bodega bar,\u201d said Det Sgt O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was on his own, having been shopping in town earlier. It was particularly busy that night. He was sitting at the bar.<\/p>\n
\u201cKevin O\u2019Flynn was with his girlfriend and he was walking past the injured party. He tripped over his foot, causing him and his girlfriend to fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe approached the injured party, and there was an argument between them.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr O\u2019Flynn\u2019s girlfriend asked her boyfriend to stand down, so to speak, but he threw a punch at the injured party, striking his mouth. And as the injured party walked away, he pushed him in the back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe injured party was taken to the CUH for injuries to his mouth. He had three teeth missing and required extensive dental treatment, costing between \u20ac10,000 and \u20ac13,000,\u201d said Det Sgt O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n
Co-operative<\/p>\n
Defence barrister Mahon Corkery said O\u2019Flynn was co-operative and remained at the scene.<\/p>\n
He is working full-time, and gathered \u20ac10,000 compensation for the injured party.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was his mistaken belief that it [tripping] was a deliberate act,\u201d said Mr Corkery.<\/p>\n
Det Sgt O\u2019Sullivan said: \u201cThere is no evidence to say he was tripped, but he did fall over the man\u2019s foot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noting the absence of previous convictions, the compensation, and other factors, Judge Sinead Behan imposed an 18-month suspended sentence on the defendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three front teeth were knocked out by a punch to a man who was out socialising during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-167160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-court","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}