Court of Appeal hearing appeal against ‘unduly lenient’ punishment for former soldier for attacking Natasha O’Brien in Limerick ...

There was enormous alarm over the case of Cathal Crotty, at the time a serving Irish soldier, who beat a woman unconscious in ...

The Court of Appeal has ruled a three-year wholly suspended sentence imposed on former soldier Cathal Crotty for beating a woman unconscious in a random attack was unduly lenient and jailed him for ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) argued that the fully suspended three-year sentence imposed last year was unduly ...

The Court of Appeal has overturned the fully suspended sentence handed down to former soldier Cathal Crotty and jailed him ...

There are serious concerns about how the Defence Forces is handling allegations of violence and abuse against its members, with claims that there is no “ownership” of such cases at the top of the ...

The DPP has argued that no jail for Cathal Crotty sends the wrong message on society's attitude towards violence ...

Muireann O’Connell has expressed her shock at some of the online abuse following Natasha O’Brien’s Ireland AM interview.

Cathal Crotty, who received a suspended three-year sentence last year after pleading guilty to the 2022 assault of Natasha O’Brien, was sentenced to two years in prison today, Thursday ...

Former soldier Cathal Crotty has been jailed by the Court of Appeal for two years for his “brutal and unprovoked” physical assault on a “defenceless” woman in Limerick city. The appeal ...

The wholly suspended sentence imposed on soldier Cathal Crotty, who beat Natasha O'Brien unconscious on a public street after she asked him to stop shouting homophobic abuse, sends out the wrong ...