The judge said Anthony Dinnegan’s survival was more a matter of luck than judgement on the part of one of the defendants

Christopher Nevin

Christopher Nevin

Two men have been jailed for eight years and four years respectively for engaging in a feud between two families that resulted in a man being stabbed multiple times on a busy street in Mullingar on a summer afternoon, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.

The Central Criminal Court was previously told that the families involved have since engaged with the Traveller Mediation Service to reconcile their differences.