A 32-year-old man who used a screw in a “nasty” stabbing of a woman who suffered a collapsed lung in Dublin’s Temple Bar has been jailed for ten months.
Father of two, Patrick Conroy, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at Cloverhill District Court today to violent disorder and using a weapon, on June 11 at Bedford Lane, Dublin 2.
Judge John Brennan heard Conroy had 164 prior criminal convictions.
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Court Garda Sergeant Olwyn Murphy told the court that two women, including the victim, had been in a row and began fighting.
They ended up on the ground when Conroy stabbed the victim three times to her side with a screw.
Medics attended to her at the scene.
Judge Brennan noted the woman, who was not present for the hearing, suffered a collapsed lung. However, she made a full recovery.
The incident was captured on CCTV.
Pleading for leniency, defence counsel Aisling Ginger-Quinn said Conroy lived in Co Mayo when he was a young child but he had a “chaotic lifestyle” and his mother was an alcoholic.
The court heard they moved to Dublin and his drug addiction started later.
He began using cannabis when he was 12 and later heroin.
He was serving a sentence for another offence and was due to be released in February.
Counsel told the court Conroy used his time in custody to rehabilitate and he hoped to get into the Coolmine Drug Rehab Centre.
The barrister said he wanted treatment he had never been afforded before and he was trying to turn his life around.
She asked the court to take into account the guilty plea and not to add significantly to his time in custody.
The judge noted the mitigation plea, his chaotic lifestyle and childhood, and efforts he was making in custody.
The Director of Public Prosecutions had directed Circuit Court trial, which can result in lengthier sentences if he denied the charge.
Sentencing, Judge Brennan described it as a “fairly nasty incident” and said to use the screw to stab someone was an “act of manifest violence”.
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