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Updated 10.45am
THE MAN WHO was convicted of the manslaughter of Irishman Thomas Keaney in a one-punch attack was sentenced to nine years in prison today.
Keaney, a 23-year-old from Galway, passed away in hospital 10 days after being punched outside a kebab shop.
During his trial the jury heard that that a fight broke out after a chair being used by Abbas Yahya Al Jrood was taken by people in Keaney’s group outside Euro Kebabs.
Al Jrood said Keaney’s death was a “tragic accident” and that he had only pushed him using a technique he learned as part of his training to become a security officer.
However, the prosecution said Keaney was punched and “would not have seen it coming as he was snuck up on” by Al Jrood.
The Galway man fell backwards after the punch and hit his head on the ground, causing a severe brain injury.
Australia’s ABC News reports that Justice Ralph Simmonds described the attack as “unprovoked, unexpected, sudden and forceful”.
While he accepted that the punch was “impulsive and spur of the moment” he said the fact Al Jrood did not stop to assist Keaney when he fell to the ground was an aggravating factor.
Keaney’s family listened to the sentencing via video link.
Before his passing, Keaney spoke to his family on the phone on Christmas Eve in 2013.
His family said it was a “senseless act” that had devastated their family.
First published 08.40am
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That would be ideal for Ireland if it had front and rear .50 calibre machine guns, hedgehog mortor pads, Bouncing Betty and Claymore mine perimetre outlay, smoke generators, surface to air missile systems, priority target HUD, ridged Kevlar body finishing and the makings of a cup of tea.
@Paul Culligan: Some jihadi somewhere is drooling over your description.
@Paul Culligan: You play Call of Duty too.
How is this even news? These mobile banks already exist especially in the west
They had this in mayo in the 1980s.
@Michael Ruane: Our IRA friends targeted them.
Another bank crash waiting to happen.
@Ala Alowska:
If you can find a lender….
Ulster bank fo the same on donegal Shame that they won’t let you pat a cheque at the counter in the branch anymore. Love the way banks treat customers as an annoyance
Hardly ground breaking news, didn’t they used to do the same here with mobile banks in the 80′s?
Same with travelling libraries (which they still do)!
Where did the Germans get that brilliant idea?
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West Cork?
Piecemeal commitment to personal customers. At a major high street branch of a big bank in the UK recently and they had a grand total of 2 tellers servicing a long queue, while trying to herd people towards self service machines. Normal account holders are considered an inconvenience now.
@Shane McGettrick:
Must say the self service machines in banks are one of the best inventions ever!! No questions from a noisy teller
Kinihans and Hutch’s etc would cream themselves with this soft target
@Tom Harpur: there’s no cash on board so I doubt that they’d be bothered ..
Banksters here will be joining the Truckers Union next, did they ever find Hoffa?
What they don’t tell you is that you must pay for every transaction. Cash withdrawal, cheque lodgement, money transfer etc.
@Rear Admiral: So like a bank then?
@Rear Admiral: The rise of the cyrptocurrencies peer to peer transactions with no middle diddle men and women is the future, a cashless society is on the way it will take a while yet to sort out the glitches in the systems ,but the Banksters are not happy about the rise of the cyrpto’s
@Robert O’Rourke: Does your bank charge you to take out money? I would change if I were you.
@Rear Admiral: Transaction fees are quite normal.
This was normal in west cork in the 70s
I’d rather see a mobile brothel come to town with “Die – Sparkass” on the side of it. And “Anything You Need.” Would that circumnavigate the law on criminalising the punter? …in rural (and urban, of course,) Ireland mobile bonking means a bonk in a bunk in the back of a truck visiting different towns.
Believe it or not but the Mobile Bank of Ireland used to stop at our house every week on its way to the village in the seventies.That what I call service .
So instead of robbing a bank you can hijack the bank instead lol.
But knowing the roads here, it wouldn’t last too long…
We have them already in Towns across Cavan , are you brain dead
@Oliver: Are they not called boats lol.
GTA just got real, money on wheels.. Genius
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