Nobody says he kicked the shit out of anyone.
The article says “Mrs Nolan received head injuries during the robbery as she sought to defend herself, eventually ending up on the ground.”

I would say that the idea of him kicking the shit out of her is as likely as him snatching a handbag, she holds on and he drags hard, causing her to fall over and the fall resulted in head injuries.

I’m speculating here, but it’s typical keyboard warrior stuff to assume what lots of people have in these comments.
The guy deserves to be punished, the injuries would not have happened if it wasn’t for him – whether the injuries were intentional or not is a different story. Punish first, then deport.

@Tomy I know someone who witnessed this and has been to the garda bout it, the f**ing ba****d assaulted this poor woman only for the person i know she would have been a lot worse off, he chased the guy but could not catch him. From what i was told by him this guy was going to hurt this woman even if she had to hand him her bag. and what i am hearing from the local gossip line he is wanted in Poland for crimes and he laughed at this woman when he was brought out to be identified by her i don’t know if that is true or not but if he did laugh at this woman he has no remorse for what he did.

This is not the first time something like this has happened her another elderly woman was attacked outside St Johns Church in Kilkenny at 10am on a week day about a yr ago, he attacked her from behind knocked her to the ground and broke her hip, it has taken her ages to be able to get out and about again, she has to have someone with her when she leaves the house as she is afraid it will happen again, she is a neighbour of mine and she told me she would have given him the bag but he was out to hurt her, they never caught the fe*ker that did this.

@briewee – if that is indeed the case I absolutely stand corrected.

I hope that such witness statements make it as far as court and the truth of the seriousness of the crime is appropriately punished.

He Should be locked up Not deported that solves nothing

@Brian He is costing the state to let him stay here. He should be deported after he gets a conviction. Especially if he has No Fixed Abode. How dare he or anyone mug anyone especially an elderly woman.

Of course it solves something, we get rid of a violent thug

@ Ornaigh – so he should get sent home with no punishment because our taxes will have to pay for his punishment?

Spot on Brian. Deportation is what HE wants. I wouldn’t mind paying a few cents per week to keep him here. Dont worry, after what he done he will be taken care of.

It does not solve the problem. His nationality is irrelevant and he has to be tried for his acts.these things might take a long time(remember our very own Irishman who killed 2 small Hungarian children a couple of years back, while being in Hungary: he did the crime, but he did not do the time). If the Gardai have him, let him do the time here first and then go back to serve his time there(it should keep him out of the streets of Europe for a good while).

make it 25 years and i am with you on that, poor woman has lost any confidence she had to function without fear on a day to day basis!!

He’ll get ten with nine and a half suspended. Then we’ll have the headlines ‘Mugger sentenced to Ten Years’.

at the risk of sounding like a right wing nutter, I agree. tho, there is something fundamentally flawed with the justice system on general. too lenient. too pc.

I think it’s after a certain amount of time, there was a case recently . A foreign man raped and murdered an Irish woman and he was looking to serve the rest of his time in his own country. The Irish family appealed the decision and I lost. I think.

Why not? Does that mean comments should only be allowed once the case is closed? But then I wouldn’t be able to reply to your comment about not commenting on open cases…

what legal case? He has admitted guilt apparantly!