{"id":494017,"date":"2026-05-20T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/494017\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:28:10","slug":"mother-who-captained-irish-boxing-team-stabbed-cousin-12-times-in-savage-knife-attack-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/494017\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother who captained Irish boxing team stabbed cousin 12 times in \u2018savage\u2019 knife attack \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young mother who represented Ireland in boxing stabbed a distant cousin 12 times, leaving her with \u201ccatastrophic injuries\u201d on a Mullingar<\/a> street, a court has heard.<\/p>\n

Mary Nevin (25) was remanded in custody on Tuesday evening pending sentencing for the unprovoked knife attack, which Judge Keenan Johnson branded as savage.<\/p>\n

Nevin, a mother of two who once captained an elite underage Irish boxing team, pleaded guilty at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court<\/a> to causing serious harm to her second cousin, Mary-Kate Nevin (22), on May 3rd, 2024, near the accused\u2019s home on Austin Friars Street in the midlands town.<\/p>\n

After viewing CCTV footage and photos of the injuries, the judge said the accused had caused catastrophic injuries.<\/p>\n

He also noted the Director of Public Prosecutions<\/a> urged a 10-15-year sentence. <\/p>\n

The judge strongly criticised violent feuding among the Traveller<\/a> community, saying it had a wonderful culture to be proud of, but it was diminished and dragged into the gutter by this type of incident. <\/p>\n

He added it was also an affront not only to their community but also to the citizenry of Mullingar.<\/p>\n

Det Garda Adrian O\u2019Reilly said Mary-Kate Nevin and her partner were planning a night out but intended to stop at her sister\u2019s first. <\/p>\n

As she walked along Austin Friars Street, the accused opened her door and repeatedly asked her to come inside.<\/p>\n

The victim told garda\u00ed she barely knew the accused, having met her only once, and refused, saying she did not want any trouble.<\/p>\n

Nevin told the victim: \u201cI\u2019ll slit your f***ing throat, you ugly tramp,\u201d ran at her and hit her in the face, the court heard. <\/p>\n

The victim felt what she thought were pinches, and when she got away, she could see she was bleeding heavily. <\/p>\n

At that point, she noticed the accused walking back into her apartment holding a black-handled kitchen knife.<\/p>\n

It emerged the victim had been stabbed 12 times on her shoulder and down her arms.<\/p>\n

The court heard how tensions flared up on social media between different sides of a row that stemmed from a \u20ac40 drug debt, which had nothing to do with the victim.<\/p>\n

She underwent emergency surgery, plastic surgery, blood transfusions and has been left permanently injured. <\/p>\n

The court heard she lost all mobility in her left arm and hand, meaning she cannot return to work as a hairdresser, which had been her lifelong goal. Daily tasks have become impossible to do on her own. <\/p>\n

She was learning to drive but had to stop because she could no longer control a car.<\/p>\n

She described how the attack had \u201cstolen my future\u201d. <\/p>\n

She had never been in a fight and was unable to defend herself against the accused, who was a trained boxer.<\/p>\n

The victim also spoke out about having never brought trouble on herself with garda\u00ed or among the Travelling or settled community.<\/p>\n

The court heard she had to cope with PTSD, depression, nightmares and flashbacks and barely goes out. \u201cI\u2019m a quarter the person I was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It also emerged that she suffered intimidation afterwards and that Mary Nevin had laughed at her about it since.<\/p>\n

The accused, Mary Nevin, also gave evidence and said: \u201cI want to apologise from the bottom of my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

She offered \u20ac5,000 as a token of remorse to her younger cousin, which was declined. The court heard she was engaged in a training course and availing of therapeutic supports. <\/p>\n

She had no recorded criminal convictions but received the Probation of Offenders Act for public order and violent disorder offences seven weeks before the stabbing.<\/p>\n

The court heard she had a young child, was breastfeeding, and she, too, had been a victim of a brutal assault.<\/p>\n

Nevin had been attacked by a Russian coach in 2016 during a European Championship competition in Germany. <\/p>\n

She told the court on Tuesday that it affected her significantly and led to her quitting boxing. <\/p>\n

She also spoke about having suffered from depression and been the victim of domestic violence in a past relationship.<\/p>\n

References from a former coach and a priest were handed in to the court.<\/p>\n

The judge told defence counsel John Hayden that he wished to consider sentencing and adjourned the case until later this month.<\/p>\n

The charge is under section four of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young mother who represented Ireland in boxing stabbed a distant cousin 12 times, leaving her with \u201ccatastrophic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,73168,13959,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,33076,5,7,8,5031,19871],"class_list":["post-494017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-criminal-courts","tag-director-of-public-prosecutions","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-mullingar","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-travellers","tag-westmeath"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116606671649669467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}