A Limerick man has been jailed for eight years after "savagely" beating a man in an unprovoked attack.
The victim, 61-year old Thomas Ryan, from Fair Green Limerick, who died in a nursing home 18 months later, had been left in a permanently disabled state after sustaining serious head injuries during the attack in 2013.
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24 year old Patrick Phelan, of Galvone Road, Kennedy Park, pleaded guilty to recklessly causing serious causing harm to Mr Ryan.
