{"id":302965,"date":"2026-02-17T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302965\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:59:09","slug":"construction-worker-who-killed-canadian-tourist-in-dublin-with-full-force-running-kick-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302965\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction worker who killed Canadian tourist in Dublin with \u2018full-force running kick\u2019 jailed for five-and-a-half years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">His co-accused was sentenced to 12 months in prison, having already served four-and-a-half. The balance was suspended for 12 months\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ionut Danca of Rathdown Square, North Circular Road, Dublin 7, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin for his sentence hearing. Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c1b15ba5-2731-4c65-b19b-13b413adc844.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ionut Danca of Rathdown Square, North Circular Road, Dublin 7, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin for his sentence hearing. Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A man who killed a Canadian tourist in Dublin city centre by \u201cbrazenly\u201d delivering a \u201cfull-force running kick\u201d straight to his head has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sentencing Ionut Danca (25) at the Central Criminal Court today, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 His co-accused was sentenced to 12 months in prison, having already served four-and-a-half. The balance was suspended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[289,615,9924,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-302965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-dublin-courts","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302965","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=302965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}