Nurse jailed after stabbing man with bread knife

A psychiatric nurse who stabbed a man with a bread knife during a drunken rage at an apartment in Limerick has been jailed for two years.

Limerick Circuit Court heard that John Michael Barrett, aged 49, originally from Liverpool, as well as pleading guilty to the attack also admitted to an arson attack on the same occasion.

He was drinking with a neighbour, Patrick O’Dea, on March 31, 2012, in Mr O’Dea’s apartment in Cathedral Place in the city.