Man faces 15 months in jail for father's manslaughter

A 36-year-old man who had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his father 10 years ago was today sentenced to 4 and a half years at the Central Criminal Court.

Last October Mr Thomas Heaney of St John's Villas, Arklow, Co Wicklow, entered his guilty plea a day before his trial was due to start at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his father, Mr Peter Heaney (aged 59) at Marian Villas Arklow on October 9, 1994.