Teens avoid jail for roles in park attack
Mr Boland’s partner, Marian O’Brien, said yesterday the accused supplied “dodgy” TV boxes and that she may have taken his mobile phone at the scene as it sometimes contained details of who was buying the sets.
The court was told Mr Gallagher died from a brain bleed eight days after the accused punched and knocked him to the ground on November 2 last year.
Garda Alan Crowley said he had accompanied the accused to Dungarvan Garda Station. He said Mr Boland told him: “He hit me first. The lad said it was like a Conor McGregor knockout. He made a comment about Russians I didn’t like”.
The trial continues on Monday.
TWO teenagers avoided jail for their roles in a violent attack in a park which left an Italian student with a broken jaw.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard how Matthew O’Connell (20) of Ledwidge Cres, Bray, Co Wicklow and Evan Vella (19), of Benamore Square, Newtown Park Av, Blackrock, Dublin, pleaded guilty to the attack of the student (16) in Blackrock.
Vella got a 16-month suspended sentence and was ordered to pay the victim €1,500. O’Connell got three years suspended and was ordered to pay over €10,000.
CASTAWAYS stranded on a desert island were rescued after they used palm fronds to spell out the word “HELP”.
The three men, all in their 40s, were found in good health on Pikelot Island, an uninhabited 32-acre isle about
415 miles south east of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean, the US Coast Guard said.
The identities of the three males, who had been stranded on the island for up to a week, were not released.
The drama began on Easter Sunday when they embarked on a voyage in a 20ft open skiff equipped with an outboard motor from Polowat Atoll. The spot is 100 nautical miles east of where they were found.
Six days later, after they failed to return back home, one of their nieces alerted the US Coast Guard and Navy, who set out to find the men.
A day later, a US Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft spotted the makeshift sign on the beach and rescued the three men from the island.
US Coast Guard Lieutenant Chelsea Garcia said: “This act of ingenuity was pivotal in guiding rescue efforts directly to their location.”