Catalogue of knife deaths

As the Garda launches its knife awareness campaign, recent court cases offer a brief glimpse into the growing knife culture and underline the need to tackle it, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A GLANCE at the cases in the courts this week gives a sobering insight into knife crime.

Last Monday, a 22-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years, with three years suspended, for the manslaughter of a 26-year-old man in north Dublin in September 2006.