Crinnion: ‘I wish peace between families’

The young man who admitted stabbing another man 13 times causing his death has no history of committing acts of violence, but there is no shortage of violence in his past.

Dean Crinnion was two years old when his father, Michael Crinnion, was shot dead on Barrack St in Cork outside a pub then called The Three Ones.

The late Michael Crinnion’s brother, Kieran, stepped in as a father figure for Dean, from when he was two years old. But by the time the boy had reached the age of six, his uncle Kieran was shot dead at the front door of his home in Thorndale Estate in Cork. The accused’s brother, Robert Crinnion, is serving 10 years for a serious attack on Finbarr Delaney, a brother of the man Dean Crinnion killed.