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Man Receives 17 Month Sentence For Multiple "Random" Assaults On Women In Westmeath

Friday, 12 September 2025 14:43

55 year old Tim Dennehy will return to court in November for further sentencing.

A man has been jailed for 17 months "unprovoked and random attacks" on women in a Westmeath town earlier this year.

The Irish Independent is reporting 55-year-old Tim Dennehy of Glanmore, Ballyhea, Charleville, Cork received the sentence for five separate assaults at Athlone District Court yesterday.

Mr Dennehy pleaded guilty to the April 2nd assaults, four of which were perpetrated on women, at court sitting in Longford last month.

The court heard how the accused barged into two women outside Athlone's Golden Island Shopping Centre, and allegedly punched one of the women in eye.

That woman told the court she continues to suffer from anxiety in the wake of the attacks.

The other woman involved in that incident then went to confront the Mr Dennehy who berated her in an expletive laden tirade saying: "Do you want a piece of this?"

The court also heard moments later the man entered a hunting shop where he tried to buy a gun and a bullet but was turned down.

On his way out he shouldered a man.

Is passing the sentence, Judge Bernadette Owens referenced the accused's significant psychiatric history and guilty plea in mitigation.

Mr Dennehy was sentenced to four months for one of the assaults, an identical sentence was given for another, while a nine month term was issued for what the judge described as the "most serious attack" on the woman outside the shopping centre.

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