2025-06-30
25-year-old gets six years for pub melee manslaughter
Stage: Sentence
Finding: Acquitted
Outcome: Acquitted; Photo: Collins) A 25-year-old "sportsman" has been jailed for six years and three months for the manslaughter of a man who died after he was assaulted during a melee outside a Kildare pub nearly three years ago. In passing sentence at the Central Criminal Court today, Ms Justice Caroline Biggs said the prosecution had argued that Calvin Dunne had taken "a running kick" at Dylan McCarthy (29) while he was on the ground, but having viewed the CCTV footage again, the judge said that it seemed to her to be "a one-stride kick" that made contact to the head.