Father gets 10 years for stabbing pal

A father-of-one with 48 previous criminal convictions was jailed for 10 years by a judge at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today for the manslaughter of his friend in 2002.

William O'Connor, aged 34, of St John's Terrace, Kinsale, Co Cork, had pleaded not guilty to the murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Richard Daly, aged 26, of Buttevant, Co Cork on June 16, 2002 at Tower Street in Cork.