Man who stabbed acquaintance at party gets six years

A man who stabbed an acquaintance during a fight at a Christmas party leaving his victim permanently paralysed from the chest down has been sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Stephen O'Reilly, (aged 21) of Clanranald Road, Donnycarney, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to Philip Dunne (aged 22) at an apartment block in Ridgewood, Swords, on December 26, 2006.