Yesterday, Cathal Crotty, a 22-year-old soldier who viciously attacked O’Brien and later boasted about it online, was handed a fully-suspended sentence for the assault which he pleaded guilty to.

Our image also shows Bracken sporting a t-shirt of the group, which also supported Limerick woman Natasha O’Brien after she was attacked by soldier Cathal Crotty. But Bracken’s association ...

Cathal Crotty had never met her before that. The report had been demanded by the Taoiseach Micheál Martin in his previous role of Minister for Defence. It was delivered to the department last ...

Those include the outcry over a three-year suspended sentence imposed on former soldier Cathal Crotty for a brutal physical assault on Natasha O’Brien in May 2022 in Limerick. The DPP ...

Natasha O’Brien (24) is the young woman who was viciously assaulted on a Limerick street in May 2022 by Irish soldier Cathal Crotty. Protests were organised nationwide after Judge Tom O ...