Romanian in Galway pleads guilty to horrific attack - Told partner he would stop beating her if he could gouge out her eye

He was obviously too much of a coward to confront the bouncer, who commented about his girlfriend.

Wounded Knee, don't listen to Tundish. He or she is either a foreigner, or a Multicultural Marxist. Yes, even if he was Irish he would still be a lowlife. He is a foreigner in Ireland that shouldn't be there, if he was an Irishman and did that to a Romanian woman in Romania; he would have probably had his throat cut.

The difficuty is that this guy is considered a macronational citizen of the European Union (EU) which, since the Lisbon (EuroFed) referendum was force-fed to an economically terrorised Irish electorate, allows EU nationals from anywhere within its exponentially expanding boundaries to settle anywhere therein. "Ireland long a province [of the United Kingdom/British Empire] be - a nation once again(!) has now become: Ireland almost a nation once before - a European county has become(!)

Tundish: The Irish Independent newspaper a few months back cited a figure of one inmate in three in Irish jails being a foreign migrant. I guess you think it's great that so many foreign criminals have moved in on Ireland. It's so multicultural, even the jails are multicultural! But the Irish want foreign criminals out of there.

This SOB should be locked up for at least 20 years. Any man who beats a women like that is a coward.& not a real Man.If he did that to any women in my family he would be sleeping with the Fishes

@ Seanmor posting at 2:52PM It is fine to make a point arguing from specific to general, but you have to provide more than a single instance when refuting a pattern. But I do take the point that deportation should be part of the sentence on any foreign national convicted of some level of crime. In the US, the current administration has deported more than any previous four year period.

@WoundedKenee posting at 2:45 PM. Except for some Rift Valley Africans, we are all immigrants from someplace. It is just that Irish papers seem to go crazy about pointing fingers at East Europeans. Like how in the US a hundred years ago the papers pointed out Irish origins. Although the person's origins had nothing to do with the crime. It smacks of an agenda driving story selection.

tundish: I certainly am NOT a W.S.S.P., though I was born in London, G.B.s capital. I am full-blodded Irish and very proud of it. During my 4 years in the Marine Corps (as an Irish citizen), I was always very well treated by every W.A.S.P. marine, from the privates to the colonels. My wife is a Methodist and had ancestors on both sides who fought their British cousins in the Revolutionary War, but she never felt the least bit superior to any Irish people in the North or South of my homeland. She too would like to see Ireland free of foreigners who commit outrageous crimes.

love the stranger was always how it went down in ould ireland - so many times it happens that it reveals a dangerous defect in the species.

tundish: "What has (sic) his Romanian origins to do with the crime?" They have everything to do with his crime. Ireland has an Open Door policy of permitting unchecked and unchallenged settlement by foreign migrants. Unlike immigration to the US, no background checks are made on foreign settlers in Ireland. It is axiomatic that all crimes committed by foreign settlers in Ireland would not have been committed were those foreign settlers not in Ireland. Before you make the stupid intervention of pointing to crime by Irish people, the fact that Irish people commit crimes is no argument for importing more criminals and thugs from abroad. You sound like you're a real xenophobic nut, Tundish, you want the Irish to be preyed on by foreign criminals.

Porta: "blaming the victim". Are you literate, Portia? Can you read? If so, where in my post did I blame this woman? You're nuts.

Send this man back to Romania after he comes out of prison!

I don't care what nationality the b----rd is he deserves the same in return only let's finish the deed he was wanting to do to her and in the same manner. 2 1/2 years is a joke especially if they're let off early as in the US.

What has his Romanian origins to do with the crime? There has never been domestic abuse among two native born? I read the Irish Times and the Independent on line every day and have noticed Irish newspaper police blotter stories seem obsessed with mentioning the foreign origins whenever possible. One recent Irish Times article even said the bad boy, although born in Ireland, was the son of two immigrant Slavs. Just as Americans seem obsessed with mentioning the race/national origin of anyone not WASP. Deliberate? Or just unconscious xenophobia?

A Romanian man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for a “sadistic” attack on his 30-year-old Irish girlfriend, in Galway.2 and half years and out in 1 no doubt. What a great message the judge has sent out to other domestic terrorists.Ah yes, sure the judges are trained to see all females before the court as feeble minded......she should have known? we hear it all the time. Somehow female victims are supposed to know which males are domestic terrorists before forming a relationship. Clearly the judges etc lack training in charmers, psychopaths, Stockholm Syndrome etc. They all understand it though when it applies to war veterans and kidnapping cases.