Tensions high in court as man jailed for manslaughter

There were highly charged scenes at the Central Criminal Court today, where a Dublin man has been jailed for 6½ years for killing his friend and stabbing another man in the heart.

Martin Toland (aged 36) of Walkinstown Park was convicted by a jury of the manslaughter of 28-year-old Alan Nolan and of seriously injuring 30-year-old James Carroll at Cedar Brook Walk, Ballyfermot on September 8, 2007.