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Fri 11 Nov 2008Man (18) gets four years for assault

AN 18-YEAR-OLD Killarney man has been handed a four-year sentence for a "horrific" attack on a Cork man who lost his way in a Killarney laneway after a Christmas party.

At the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee, Shane O'Riordan, Arbutus Grove, Killarney, admitted assault causing harm to Graham Geasley on December 16th, 2006.