Violent criminal who left man with brain injury carried out knife robberies after being repeatedly released on bail

A 42-year-old man with 86 previous convictions has been sentenced to eight and a half years' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty pleas to assault causing serious harm, robbery, theft and threatening to kill or cause serious harm. The defendant attacked a man on Phibsborough Road in Dublin, leaving him unconscious and requiring over five months of hospitalisation for a traumatic brain…