Six years' suspended for manslaughter of father

A teenager convicted of killing his father who came home drunk has walked free from the Central Criminal Court, after being given a suspended six-year sentence.

Thomas Cunningham (aged 19) was convicted by a jury earlier this year of the manslaughter of Thomas Brendan Cunningham Snr (aged 46) at their home in Santa Maria Commons, Ballinlough, Co Roscommon on August 23, 2007.