Limerick Brothers pitcher Kyle Hayes to be sentenced for attacking former good friend

Two brothers from Limerick beat a person with a hurley and a wrench, breaking a number of bones, within the mistaken perception he had been having a relationship with certainly one of their ex-partners, a courtroom heard on Thursday.

Daragh Hayes (37) and Cian Hayes (33), each from Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, who’re brothers of five-time All-Eire successful Limerick bowler Kyle Hayes, appeared earlier than the Circuit Prison Court docket of Limerick for being convicted of savagery with out provocation. assault on their former good friend and neighbor Ciaran Ryan.

Mr Ryan, who runs a automobile gross sales enterprise in Limerick metropolis, suffered a number of fractures together with to his leg, arm and fingers, in addition to intensive bruising all through his physique, the courtroom heard.

Lily Buckley, solicitor solicitor, mentioned Mr Ryan “begged” Cian Hayes and Daragh Hayes to cease hitting him, however they continued, regardless of his pleas.

They lastly stopped after they realized he was “telling the reality” and had not been romantically concerned with Darragh Hayes’ ex-partner and mom of his two younger kids, Claire McNamara. the courtroom discovered.

Pals of 20 years

Ms Buckley mentioned Mr Ryan was attacked by the 2 defendants after they invited him to Daragh Hayes’ home underneath the pretext that they had been to debate Cian Hayes’s impending wedding ceremony by which Mr Ryan was Cian Hayes’ greatest man .

The 2 events grew up collectively and, till the day of the assault, had been shut mates for 20 years, Ms Buckley mentioned.

Mr Ryan, who had unsuspectingly introduced cake, wine and beer to the home considering it was a “nice go to”, was welcomed contained in the property by Cian Hayes.

Nevertheless, each defendants instantly started questioning Mr Ryan a couple of textual content message he had despatched to Ms McNamara, a number of months beforehand and earlier than the couple’s separation, which was totally harmless in nature, the courtroom heard .

When Mr. Ryan advised the 2 defendants that he didn’t know what they had been doing, they produced an adult-sized hurley and a big wrench, over a foot lengthy, and started beating him with their weapons.

The assault happened within the entrance lounge of Daragh Hayes’ residence, round 7:15 p.m. on September 29, 2021.

Detective Sergeant Michael Reidy, of Newcastle West Garda Station, advised the courtroom “violence ensued virtually instantly”.

Cian Hayes and Daragh Hayes stood over Mr Ryan and advised him “you higher begin speaking” earlier than they began hitting him with the spider key and hurley, Ms Buckley mentioned.

“Cian Hayes threw a wrench at me from one aspect and Dara Hayes was hitting me with the hurley from the opposite aspect,” Mr Ryan advised Gardaí after the assault.

A number of fractures

He suffered a number of fractures, bruising throughout his physique and a collapsed lung.

Ms Buckley mentioned: ‘They hit him throughout his physique, he slipped on the ground and screamed at them to cease, he tried to carry them again, he was struggling to breathe due to a lung pressure collapsed following affect.”

“Mr Ryan was having problem respiration, however Cian Hayes mentioned to his brother, ‘do not thoughts him, Daragh, he can breathe,’ they usually each began hitting him once more on each side,” continued Mrs. Buckley.

Sergeant Reidy advised the courtroom each defendants inflicted “extreme blows” on Mr Ryan.

Ms Buckley advised the courtroom: “They hit him in every single place besides his head and ft, they stopped to query him once more, however they thought he was mendacity, they usually hit him once more three or 4 occasions.”

“Daragh Hayes smashed the hurley by hitting Mr Ryan with it. He then requested Cian Hayes for the important thing and he hit Mr Ryan with a blow to his proper leg.

“Mr Ryan thought at that time he had damaged his kneecap, he was begging them to cease, however they simply saved going,” Ms Buckley mentioned.

Cian Hayes began hitting Mr Ryan once more with the important thing and Daragh Hayes picked up the damaged hurley boss and hit Mr Ryan’s hand with it.

When each defendants lastly realized their mistake, Cian Hayes turned “visibly upset”, Ms Buckely mentioned.

Daragh Hayes, nevertheless, threatened Mr Ryan that his automobile gross sales enterprise, in Limerick Metropolis, and his girlfriend’s household residence can be focused if he advised anybody what had occurred.

Ms Buckley mentioned Daragh Hayes additionally warned Mr Ryan to remain out of native pubs and retailers, “he was advised to be invisible regardless of being the sufferer”.

Each defendants positioned Mr. Ryan again in his automobile as a result of he couldn’t bodily entry the car resulting from his accidents.

Each defendants used instruments to straighten Mr Ryan’s automobile keys, which had been “warped” from the affect of the beating.

Taken to hospital

Mr Ryan alerted his girlfriend as he tried to return residence. She met him and instantly took him to the hospital.

Mr Ryan initially spent eight days in hospital recovering from emergency surgical procedure and needed to endure additional operations to have metallic implants positioned in his bones.

He needed to endure an intensive program of physiotherapy however made bodily restoration, the courtroom heard.

Mr Ryan alerted a neighborhood Garda and made a press release to Gardaí from his hospital mattress concerning the assault.

Each accused males initially denied any involvement in Mr Ryan’s accidents.

Daragh Hayes’ residence was searched and gadgets faraway from the home had been examined by forensic specialists.

Bloodstains discovered on cushions eliminated by gardaí from the home matched Mr Ryan’s DNA, which proved “important” in supporting his garda assertion concerning the assault, Ms Buckley mentioned.

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Each defendants had been initially charged with one rely every of part 4 assault “inflicting critical hurt” to Mr Ryan and producing weapons.

The State in the end accepted their arguments for a lesser cost of assault “inflicting hurt” towards Mr. Ryan, which carries a lesser sentence.

Each defendants additionally pleaded responsible to possessing the hurley and wrench throughout the assault.

The sentencing listening to continues this afternoon and is anticipated to listen to particulars of Mr Ryan’s sufferer affect assertion.