Three-time All-Ireland medal winner and former Cork camogie captain, Ashling Thompson (28), has pleaded guilty to assaulting a young woman in the early hours at a nightclub in Cork last year. Thompson, of Newtownshandrum, Charleville, Co Cork, pleaded guilty today to assaulting Jennifer Coakley at the Secret Garden at Rearden’s on Washington Street in Cork on February 25th, 2018. She had planned to travel to Singapore with her boyfriend but had to delay the trip for medical treatment for the jaw fracture, Ms Coakley told the court. He said his client faced another charge of assaulting another woman, Aoife O’Flaherty, also at the Secret Garden at Rearden’s on the same date and she was contesting that charge. Judge O’Leary fixed that second assault charge for hearing on June 18th next and he adjourned the issue of sentence in relation to the assault on Ms Coakley until that date.

Source: The Irish Times May 01, 2019 12:56 UTC