Man jailed over drinking session killing

A Limerick man who hit a father of three over the head with bottles of beer during a drinking session and left while he bled to death was today sentenced to eight years in prison.

Joseph McCarthy, (aged 32), from Delmedge Park, Moyross, Limerick, had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Colman Barrett in a Laneway beside St Patrick’s cathedral in Galway city on September 8-9, 2003.