Someone allegedly lost their temper with a hurley.

Clare all ireland winner.

Lets wait for the full facts.

He's a pillar of the community and an upstanding member of the local GAA club. Likely let off. Welcome to Ireland.

Don't forget - he does trojan work with the local GAA club and comes from a highly respected GAA family also...

Sorry if I what I said came across as 'fact' , I have , at best, 4th hand knowledge, Chinese whispers if you like.

Another bash the GAA thread.

I'm not dismissing what he did. It was a cowardly and vicious act however he wasn't playing GAA at the time or representing them. Will we ever see the headline '' retired hang glider assaults boy ''? Hardly.

I know him.

The amount of times I have seen you be completely wrong about factual details on this site, I now have to assume the man in question has never been to Clare.

You've a propensity to take on posters with your passive aggressive nature. Leave it for real life lad. Don't be a keyboard warrior.

Probably an unveted male, shouldn't be allowed outside, much less given access to weapons

Get a load of the journalists name.

An unveted All Ireland winner?

That's an impressive amount of bullsh1t in such a short sentence. Congrats.

I've seen a name in a piece by a foreign web-news site, I would suppose it would need to be more concrete before linking the story.

The boy was knocked unconscious during the incident and had to use a wheelchair for nearly two weeks afterwards, his family have claimed.

I don't think it's leveraged in court to the degree people think it is. Just so happens the mitigating factors are true, involved in GAA community etc etc.

No different to mitigating factors of "involved in men's shed" "involved in local youth group" "involved in giving their elderly parent home care"

I find it a bit cringey that the GAA specifically is seen as some get off clause. The truth is, nobody with a clean criminal record is going to prison for assault. Even a bad assault. It'd be a suspended sentence most likely. Unless maybe they left somebody permanently brain damaged etc.

No previous, no jail time for these men:

Above 14 previous, biting a guard whos waiting with you for an ambulance, no jail time.

5 lads give fractures to a man and leave a woman with two black eyes, none have previous convictions, no jail time:

an assault in a busy supermarket in the middle of the day, the type of thing that people would say "Dublin is out of control", 1 previous convictions, no jail time: https://dublingazette.com/dublinlocalmatters/news/court-appearance-suspended-55533/

And I could go on. My point is, more often than not, the general trend is, if you've no previous convictions, you're not going to jail for assault regardless of who you are.

This joke about "a few quid compo and mention the GAA" as if it's somehow only applicable to GAA people. Nah...not really. As you can see, a few quid compo and avoiding jail is fairly standard across the board. Or no compo but still avoiding jail.

“The child sustained a broken collarbone and a broken foot as well as serious bruising around his chest and back areas in the alleged attack, which happened in the west of the country on October 5 last year.”

the GAA head obviously not the sharpest tool in the box. If you are going to inflict those sorts of injuries on a 12 year old you are going to have some sort of comeback and case to answer.

that said I can appreciate his frustration.

he himself was victim to the sort of crime repeatedly that our criminal justice system both from Garda to the courts just does nothing in my experience to help or benefit the victim and the man on this occasion, snapped.

Or Caroline Lowbridge reporting a bridge strike.

His collarbone and foot were broken, there would be doctor reports to back that up. Given the fact his collarbone was broken, it wouldn't be exactly surprising that he'd lose consciousness during the incident. So regardless of a 12 year old being an idiot, that doesn't justify a violent assault that could have killed him. You really seem to love to excuse this kind of thing.

you do have a special talent for victim blaming

"Ah shure lookit....he's one of the greats - didn't he win an all Ireland with Clare back in '97"

His big mistake was not bringing a sliotar and another hurl...

Just a personal anecdote, a guy I played rugby with had the misfortune of getting into a fight with a garda in plain clothes, he served time, no previous record.

I guess that might be a special case