Micheal O Leidhin of Sunnyside, Malahide Road, Artane was convicted last April of sexual assault at his former home in south Dublin in the early hours of the morning of May 13, 2018.
Sentencing him on Tuesday, Ms Justice Karen O’Connor agreed with a defence application to stay the sentence until next Monday, August 1, when O Leidhin is to present himself at Mountjoy Prison. The group went on to another pub and the woman and O Leidhin were kissing. At the end of the night, O Leidhin asked the woman to go back to his flat in south Dublin and they got a taxi there.
He told gardai that he told her that they had engaged in sexual foreplay and that he had been trying to wake the woman to continue “fooling around”. Mr Condon said his client is remorseful and that having put his understanding of what took place to the jury he accepts the jury verdict. She said she replays the assault again and again and has felt depressed and suicidal. She said she did attempt to kill herself by overdosing and ended up moving back in with her parents outside of Dublin to cope with the trauma and stress.