Niall

The second man, Alan O'Brien, got 25 years.

He was also regarded as being...

you know, heavily culpable.

And the kind of the lesser guy, a guy called Darren Redmond from East Wall, he got a total of 18 years.

There was a fourth guy was acquitted.

So those sentences are huge.

I mean, 30 years in prison, you know, it would only happen maybe once every year somebody would get that length of sentence.

Obviously, people get life sentences.

And that case.

Yeah, so obviously this case, it began, it ran for a couple of days, and in which case four of the five men agreed to change their pleas, the guilty, to the charge of assault.

So they were originally charged with false imprisonment, which has a potential for a much higher tariff.

I think you can even be given a life sentence.

But assault has a maximum sentence.

of a 10-year sentence.

So the second these guys come into that courtroom today, looking, you know, wearing their tracksuits and looking not too stressed out, they know the worst case scenario is a 10-year sentence.

Jason Hennessy Jr., the two Fitzsimons and Brandon, they know that's the maximum they can get.

They know also that they have pled guilty, so they're almost automatically going to get something off it.

Yes, for the obvious reason that, and they actually explained it in court today, you have to give them the incentive because the opposite is to put the victim through a trial.

And the victim in that case nearly always will have to be a witness, which is a deeply traumatic experience.

They, certainly in a case like this, but in any case, a victim being called to court is traumatic.