Man pleads guilty to manslaughter at Manhattan Bar in Cork

The young man who denied murdering a middle-aged man at the Manhattan Bar in Cork in Christmas 2011 has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Dean Crinnion, aged 20, of 1 Blackwater Grove, Togher, Cork, was yesterday re-arraigned at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork, having denied murder on Tuesday.

Yesterday, when arraigned on the same charge of murdering Gerard Delaney, at Lower Friars Walk, Ballyphehane, on December 27, 2011, he replied: “Not guilty to murder, guilty to manslaughter.” Prosecution senior counsel Marjorie Farrelly said that plea was acceptable to the DPP and she applied to have the accused remanded in custody for sentencing next Wednesday.