A Waterford man was sentenced to four years in prison for killing his brother on New Year’s Day in 2003, at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Waterford city man has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of the manslaughter of his younger brother over two years ago, hours after they rang in the new year together.

A Waterford woman has told a murder trial that the deceased had threatened to "do in" the accused’s only eye minutes before he was stabbed to death on New Year’s Day 2003.