Cork man receives eight year jail sentence for beating friend to death in drunken row

A Cork man who killed his friend by repeatedly punching him in the head during a pub row after drinking 20 pints has been jailed for eight years for manslaughter.

Sentencing Michael Dineen at the Central Criminal Court this evening, Mr Justice Alexander Owens said the attack was a "one-sided and unequal affair", where the deceased had taken "a battering" from "prolonged punching".