Seven years for Kerry man who killed man who set fire to car in family driveway

"His mother's wiser counsel did not prevail at the time," noted the judge, adding that she had seen him searching for a knife in the kitchen press and told him to stay at home.

A 21-year-old man who stabbed another man to death after failing to listen to the "wise counsel" of his mother to stay at home has been jailed for seven years for manslaughter.

Sentencing Blake Sweeney today at the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Tony Hunt said there was no need for the defendant to arm himself with a knife and great harm had been done with a young man losing his life.