SIX YEAR SENTENCE FOR ASSAULT ON GALWAY BARMAN

Date Published: 12-May-2010

A young Galway man can no longer smile and has been left with permanent facial paralysis and deafness following a vicious assault by two brothers.John Quigley (33) of 31 Mulacreevie Park, Armagh, had been living in Carn Ard, Circular Road, Galway when he assaulted a 26-year-old student and part time barman at Gaelcarrig Park, Newcastle, on August 27, 2001.He was handed down a six-year sentence at Galway Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.