Man found guilty of New Year's Eve manslaughter

A Dublin man has been found not guilty of killing his friend in a New Year 's Eve fight a jury in the Central Criminal Court has found.

The jury of ten men and two women took just over five hours to find Karl Breen (aged 27), with an address at Nangor Crescent Clondalkin not guilty to the murder of his friend Martin McLaughlin (aged 21), but guilty to manslaughter by a majority of ten to two.