Outside the court, a grief-stricken Brenda Bates and her sons Paul, Mark, and Carl, said they were happy with the sentence.

A Dublin man who killed a father of three by savagely beating him with a hurley in a road rage incident two years ago has been sentenced to 12 years by the Central Criminal Court.

An Irish motorist was jailed for 12 years today for the manslaughter of a British man in a road rage attack.