Judge comments on large number of immigrants connected to stabbings

The most senior central criminal court judge has commented on the large number of immigrants to Ireland coming before the courts following drunken stabbings.

In sentencing Brazilian immigrant Jose Claudio Domingos, aged 44, to seven years in prison for the manslaughter of his best friend Alberto Do Prado Oliveira, aged 47, Mr Justice Paul Carney said the case was a variant of a large number coming before the courts where members of the immigrant communities, who did not integrate with the population, gathered and drunk domestic spirits and beer in their flats.