Carlow man gets 14 years for manslaughter

A 22-year-old Carlow man has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for the manslaughter of a teenage father-of-one he stabbed to death in a row in Carlow town in 2001.

Passing sentence on John Dillon at the Central Criminal Court today Mr Justice Barry White said a “loud and clear message must go forth” that the use of knives for violence will not be tolerated.