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‘People think I’m some kind of monster and I am not. I will prove it’ Sean O'Hagan takes part during the Ultimate Strongman competition Sean O'Hagan Ireland’s strongman Sean O’Hagan claims he has been trolled and harassed since pleading guilty to domestic abuse charges. Speaking to the Sunday World this week ahead of a hearing that could land him behind bars when sentenced next month, he denied he was a “monster”.

And he claimed his mental health is suffering as a consequence of his current circumstances and that he now takes medication for anxiety. The 34-year-old, who stands just under seven foot tall, claimed he had been suffering since the court case. “My life is a mess at the minute, I am being harassed, I have people outside my house at night, my car was destroyed and I am being trolled on the internet, yeah, trolled is the right word.



“People think I am some kind of monster and I am not. I will prove that,” he told the Sunday World . “This is so stressful, I have had to go to the doctors for diazepam because I’m so anxious.

O'Hagan won the Ireland’s Strongest Man contest in 2015 “That’s all I can say about it now, it’s in the hands of my solicitor who I will get to contact you,” he said. O’Hagan was due to go on trial two weeks ago, but after a jury was sworn in, defence KC Eugene Grant requested for his client to be rearraigned on six of the charges against him. O’Hagan, from Laurencetown, Co Down, entered guilty pleas to two coun.

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