A Limerick teenager has been jailed for five years at the Central Criminal Court for his role in the stabbing of his former school friend over two years ago.

A 21-year-old Limerick man who was jailed for life for the murder of a Ukrainian teenager was sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting a 15 year-old youth in the same attack at the Central Criminal Court today.

SCHOOL friends and members of the soccer team Roman Vysochan played with joined hundreds of mourners last night for the removal of the remains of the teenage student who was stabbed to death in Limerick at the weekend.