Shillelagh attacker has prison term more than doubled

A father of six who struck another man up to 20 times with a shillelagh during a "savage and vicious" pub attack has had his 2.5-year jail term more than doubled by the Court of Appeal. In January last year at Longford Circuit Criminal Court, Edward Blondie' Stokes (33) of Ferriskill, Granard, Co Lo