Man found guilty of killing friend during argument

A YOUNG Dublin man has been found guilty of killing his friend during an argument in Irishtown last year.

The jury at the Central Criminal Court took four hours to reach a unanimous verdict, finding Mark Green, aged 20, of Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin, not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Alan Young, 19, of George Reynolds House, Ringsend, at or near Bremen Road, Irishtown, Dublin, on March 11 last year. Mr Young was found near Irishtown sports stadium with a stab wound in his chest.

During the seven-day trial, the court heard that Mark Green and Alan Young had been friends for most of their lives, but that tensions developed between them over the weekend of the killing.