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23rd January 2025
05:35pm GMT
Cathal Crotty has been sentenced to two years in prison for attacking activist Natasha O'Brien in Limerick in 2022.
O'Brien was beaten unconscious by the disgraced ex-soldier after she told him to stop yelling homophobic abuse.
Crotty was originally handed a fully suspended sentence but the Court of Appeal ruled that Cathal Crotty's original sentence was 'unduly lenient'.
In a previous interview with Her’s Jody Coffey, Natasha O’Brien stressed that we shouldn’t be happy about the appeal because Crotty never should’ve walked away with such a lenient sentence.
She shared, “It’s the bare minimum guys. It’s the bare minimum. Why should we be happy that the right thing is being done? We should be unhappy that the right thing has not been done in the first place.”
She stressed that changes need to happen so no person goes through this again and that starts in the courts.
“We should be looking at the people that can change this so that this doesn’t happen again like the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence.”
