Passing sentence today, Judge Melanie Greally said Shields and his then partner had passed the day attending a wedding and the celebrations involved quite an amount of alcohol.
Judge Greally said Shields had previously been diagnosed with an anti-social personality disorder and was experiencing elevated levels of anxiety.
The couple returned home and became involved in a “verbal exchange”.
She said this culminated in Shields “lunging” at the victim and hitting her in the face with his fist, causing “significant injury” around her eye.
The court heard that while there was no fracture, there was “considerable swelling” and the bruising took approximately three weeks to heal.
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Taxi driver jailed for storing almost €250,000 of cocaine for drug dealers
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A Kildare taxi driver under financial pressure who was storing almost a quarter of a million euro of cocaine for drug dealers has been jailed for four and a half years.
Stephen Boylan (51), a separated father of two, was storing the drugs in a wooden cabin where he lived at the rear of a house.
Boylan of The Meadows, Newtown, Kill, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of the drugs for sale or supply at his home on May 28, 2020. He has no previous convictions.