Jury finds Nathan O’Neill guilty of manslaughter in Shannon nightclub murder case

Nathan O’Neill had told the court: "I never set out to hurt anyone."

The jury of one woman and 11 men deliberated for four hours and one minute before returning to Courtroom 6 at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork on Thursday afternoon to to say they found Nathan O’Neill not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. File picture: Larry Cummins

The young Limerick man accused of murdering a 23-year-old man in a Shannon nightclub in 2018 has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.

The accused man, Nathan O’Neill, 24, had already pleaded guilty to manslaughter but not murder. The trial was to determine the issue of murder.