Junior Cert party turns to tragedy as father killed in row over noise

A Junior Cert party thrown by parents for their daughter turned to tragedy yesterday when the girl’s father was stabbed to death in a row with neighbours over noise.

Jason Flannery, aged in his early 40s, suffered fatal knife wounds in the violent argument, in which three other people also sustained injuries, one of them serious.

Gardaí believe that eight people were involved in the melee on St Joseph’s Way in Ballymun, north Dublin, and that a number of them were armed with knives and hurleys.