Kyle Hayes - a good GAA man?

It's still a backward country in ways, the fear of bringing shame to the parish seen as a reason to hush up this crime, coupled with the fact that the two thugs were members of a prominent GAA family. Very lenient sentences too when you consider the premeditated element and the seriousness of the injuries inflicted. 👇


The man who was violently beaten by Daragh and Cian Hayes with a hurley and a spider wrench has said he was offered “a bag of cash” to withdraw his statement ahead of the trial.

Ciaran Ryan suffered several injuries, including a broken leg, fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and broken fingers after being assaulted in September 2021 by the Hayes brothers in their home in Kildimo.

After the attack, Mr Ryan said the two brothers carried him out of the house because he couldn’t walk, and sent him “on my way to die”.
“They had to start the car for me,” Mr Ryan told the Sunday World.
“They had to put it into gear, they had to let up the clutch and they just sent me on my way to die — literally, because they knew I was going to faint.”
The doctors told Mr Ryan’s mother that he had a “50/50 chance of survival”.

During the days following the attack, Mr Ryan said the Hayes brothers started spreading rumours about the attack.
They put rumours out that it was a Traveller gang that had assaulted me, but it was all lies.

"They were trying to move the limelight away from them.” Once he made a statement to gardaí, Mr Ryan said he and his family became pariahs in their own parish.

He said people fear the “GAA and the Hayes”.

“People were just in silence because they were afraid,” he told the Sunday newspaper.

“The fear people have of the GAA and the Hayes — they wanted nothing to do with us.” At some point, Mr Ryan even got offered “a bag of cash” in exchange for his silence:
I had people, who are not nice people, ring me and say: ‘Will you ta
ke a bag of cash and let this all go away? Will you take a bag of cash?’

He said his father, who is a Eucharistic minister, would not go to Mass in Kildimo anymore, because of how others looked at him.
Mr Ryan received a call from a local farmer, asking him to resolve “this out of court”.
“’It’s not good for the parish. That’s what he said. It’s not good for the parish.

“It was just madness. They were blaming me for putting a downness [sic] on the parish and the GAA.
“Like it was my fault. I was the victim. It was not my fault,” said Mr Ryan.

Mr Ryan said someone working for him was pinned up against a wall in a local pub, and told to pick a side.
“You either pick the Hayes or you pick Ciaran Ryan.

They were putting an element of fear into the parish that was uncanny. It was just crazy.
The two brothers of Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes were jailed on Thursday for beating their friend, Ciaran Ryan, with a hurley and a spider wrench.

Daragh Hayes, 37, and Cian Hayes, 34, of Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, lured Mr Ryan, into Daragh Hayes’s house where they viciously attacked him after erroneously believing Mr Ryan had gotten romantically involved with Daragh Hayes’ ex-partner.

Daragh Hayes was jailed for three years with the final six months suspended, while Cian Hayes was sentenced to two-and-a-half years, with the final six months suspended.

That's makes for such grim reading.

The absolute pricks mentioned in that article who put pressure on that innocent victim, his family and employee should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

The neanderthal like attitude towards women which somehow gave the Hayes brothers a sense of entitlement to carry out the attack is also extremely worrying but not surprising given their background/culture.

People with more knowledge of the legal system can comment accurately on the sentences handed out but reading that, it just seems too lenient. That was vicious.
 
That's makes for such grim reading.

The absolute pricks mentioned in that article who put pressure on that innocent victim, his family and employee should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

The neanderthal like attitude towards women which somehow gave the Hayes brothers a sense of entitlement to carry out the attack is also extremely worrying but not surprising given their background/culture.

People with more knowledge of the legal system can comment accurately on the sentences handed out but reading that, it just seems too lenient. That was vicious.
I know Mattie said false imprisonment is hard to prove but cannot understand why these thugs were not charged.
This man was held against his will.
They would be doing life in another country.
 
Not bothering Kyle a whole pile, he played some game the other night.
He is a great player and cork could do with someone like him with his physique at CB ..I was watching him last night and he had a great game and he makes it look so easy .

Pity he is a scumbag but have to admit he is a great hurler..
 
He is a great player and cork could do with someone like him with his physique at CB ..I was watching him last night and he had a great game and he makes it look so easy .

Pity he is a scumbag but have to admit he is a great hurler..
Cork will have to have a plan to neutralise him
 
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