Patrick McDonagh jailed for causing serious harm to garda

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Patrick McDonagh was jailed for seven years for causing serious harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 7 February 2016.

He pleaded guilty to causing serious harm to Garda Ciaran Murrihy at Clonuske Rise, Hamlet Lane, Balbriggan, on 29 August 2015. Judge Martin Nolan also imposed a concurrent three-and-a-half-year sentence for assaulting Garda Stephen Hughes.