“Two to put her down, two to put her out”

Yesterday’s court decision by Judge Tom O’Donnell to give Cathal Crotty, an Irish soldier, a suspended sentence after he brutally assaulted Natasha O’Brien knocking her unconscious is a stark example of the systemic failures in addressing men’s violence against women.   Crotty, who attacked O’Brien without provocation, punched her multiple times, and boasted about it…