Soldier beats a woman unconscious, gets a great reference from his CO. Jailed after appeal

More good news

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/1537494/farewell-event-cancelled-for-limerick-judge-at-centre-of-soldier-assault-case.html

Also judge Thomas E. O'Donnell's wikipedia page was updated this morning. Not fully accurate as most of us just consider him to be useless

Btw, I think this "she was doing what women do all the time when they contradict a man: taking her life in her hands."

is a disgusting attitude to have.

What percentage of men attack women? To paint all men in this light shows where you are coming from.

I'll take what Natasha said as the 'full truth'.

According to Natasha, from the podcast, it was a man in a pub, about 50 metres away, who heard her screams and ran up and intervened. Not his friends.

And clearly the friends did not give the Gardai any info, as Natasha had to track Crotty down. Alternatively, the friends did indeed tell the Guards who he was and…

Missing the point again, even though I specifically said, several times, that most men don't do that.

Most men don't, but women have no way of knowing which men will. So women live with that all the time.

The other way of looking at it is: most men don't abuse women, but just about every woman has personal experience of some level of intimidation or abuse by a man. Ask the women in your life.

I am wondering how fearless and assured he’d be had it been a physically imposing man intervening instead of a woman.

The two scenarios clearly not the same. Yes, he could give it a go against the man, but he absolutely had no fear when going to pulverise a defenceless woman. A physically imposing man a lot more difficult than the woman he chose to beat up. An absolute cowardly act

So now your position isnt that he didnt do it before, merely that he was never caught before?

Is there any other evidence that only you are privy to or are you just using your (un)conscious bias in all your reasoning today?

"he hides his violent streak well when not in a position to win."

And what evidence, prior to this incident would you base this on?

Do you believe that all male-female relationships are based on coercion and intimidation?

That's not what I said. In fact I pretty much said the opposite.

None. I'm saying that this act cannot possibly be said to be out of character, because nothing exceptional caused it. Therefore it was in character, and anyone saying it was out of character just didn't know his character.

Whether it happened before or not, who knows. But we can't assume it's the first time either. All we can say is it's the first time he got caught. I didn't express any view on whether there were previous incidents or not.

Crotty has not explained why he did what he did. Did he even know what he was doing as he was doing it? Was he drunk to a point where he had no control/understanding what he was at? If he came out and explained, and showed real sorrow and remorse, maybe folks could try understand. But to my knowledge he acted with intent and acted while knowing what he was doing..

Yes. 4-6 punches causing a few different injuries, including a serious concussion

I understand exactly why Togher used those words. Why can’t you get it into your head that it only aggravates the problem for the Defence Forces.

It shows that a cowardly thug like Crotty is held in the highest regard by those who are responsible for instilling discipline in the military. Togher didn’t even try to adjust his comments in light of Crotty’s guilty plea and the horrific CCTV (until he was caught unexpectedly by cross-examination)

There should be fireworks at the Tribunal if anyone tries to defend Togher with your line of reasoning.