Limerick man found guilty of manslaughter

A Limerick man who admitted stabbing a 22-year-old man in a park in 1999 was found not guilty murder, but guilty of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court today.

A jury of seven men and four women took almost seven and a half hours of deliberating to find Mr Robert McNamara, (aged 28) of Clarina Park, Ballinacurra, Westin, Limerick guilty of the manslaughter of Mr Brendan O’Connell on December 16, 1999 at the People’s Park in Limerick.