Man jailed over fatal pub stabbing

A 20-year-old killer was yesterday given a 10-year jail sentence, with the final two suspended, for a Christmastime stabbing of a 51-year-old man outside a Cork pub.

Jailing Dean Crinnion for eight years, Mr Justice Paul Carney suspended a further two years of the sentence on condition the defendant would stay away from the family of the deceased, in perpetuity.

Crinnion’s trial had ended last week when he pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter —the unlawful killing of Gerard Delaney on the night/early morning of December 26/27, 2011, at Lower Friars Walk, Ballyphehane, Cork.