Man gets two-year sentence for Stanley attack

A man who slashed his girlfriend's teenage sister with a 'Stanley' knife in a savage and frenzied attack has been given a two-year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Michael Gannon, aged 25, from Howth View Park, Kilbarrack had broken up with his girlfriend, Ms Tara Donoghue, about two months previously after becoming incensed because she had started working in a Leeson Street lapdancing club.