Ciaran Ryan, a former minor footballer and national athletics champion, was brutally attacked by two brothers of All-Star hurler Kyle Hayes. The brothers lured him to their house under false pretenses and beat him with a hurley and a wrench.
A former minor Limerick footballer and national athletics champion who was lured to a savage beating by two brothers of All-Star hurler Kyle Hayes, told a sentencing court today: 'They beat me like they wanted me dead'. Ciaran Ryan, Pallaskenry, Co Limerick, fought back tears as he told how Cian Hayes and Daragh Hayes, who he had grown up with and played GAA with at the Kildimo Pallaskenry club, left him afraid for his life.
Daragh Hayes (37) and Cian Hayes (34), of Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, beat Mr Ryan with a hurley and a wrench, and later threatened to attack his car sales business and his girlfriend’s home if he told anyone about the unprovoked attack. Limerick Circuit Criminal Court heard that both accused 'lured' Mr Ryan to Daragh Hayes’ house on the guise that they would discuss arrangements for Cian Hayes' impending wedding in which Mr Ryan was his best man. However, once inside the house, the two brothers set upon Mr Ryan, wrongly believing he had been involved in a romantic relationship with Daragh Hayes’ ex-partner Claire McNamara, who he had been separated from at the time. Daragh Hayes broke a hurley off of Mr Ryan while Cian Hayes delivered blows with the wrench, their sentencing hearing heard. Mr Ryan sustained multiple broken bones including to a leg, arm, fingers, as well as extensive bruising all over his body, and he said he continues to suffer traumatic stress from the attack. Lily Buckley, prosecuting barrister, said Mr Ryan 'pleaded' with the two accused men to stop hitting him, but they carried on. They eventually stopped when they realised he was 'telling the truth', that he did not know anything about what the brothers had erroneously accused him off
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