Alanna Quinn Idris, now aged 18, was hit in the face during the group attack, fracturing her eye socket and leaving her permanently blind in her right eye
“I will never be the woman I was supposed to be – she died that night. Sometimes I wish I never woke up from when I was hit with that object,” Ms Quinn Idris told the court.In a judgment delivered on Thursday, Judge Martin Nolan condemned what he said was a premeditated, savage attack that involved collaboration between the young men who perpetrated it.
The court heard there had been “abusive and loutish behaviour” by Lyons’ co-accused towards both victims on the bus. Two other men are facing trial in relation to the attack and cannot be named, while a fourth man could not be identified. Ms Quinn Idris said she was still discovering all the ways “this awful attack” has hurt her and set her life in a different course.
She said that she missed so much of the final months of her Leaving Cert year and also missed occasions including her 18th birthday, her graduation and the birth of her brother. Some of the accused were also on the bus, and there was a brief verbal dispute of some sort between Mr O’Sullivan and one of the accused after all parties alighted from the bus at about 9.30pm.
Lyons then shouted, “stab him, lads” and jumped over Ms Quinn Idris as all three continued attacking, punching and kicking Mr O’Sullivan, also striking him seven times with the saddle and eight times with the hurl. A knife was later found at the scene but was not attributed to Lyons. Dean Kelly SC, defending Lyons, said his client was not involved in the “abusive and loutish behaviour” of the other suspects towards both victims on the bus. Mr Kelly said Lyons had gone to what he understood to be an understood to be an incident of more violence and was “the first person into the fray”.
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