A drunk driver who killed a 4-year-old boy in Laois has successfully appealed his seven and a half year sentence.
Ciarán Treacy died when Finbarr O’Rourke’s car crashed into the car he was travelling in with his mother and older brother in April 2014.
The father-of-three, with an address at Laurel Drive in Portlaoise had consumed up to eight pints of cider before he got behind the wheel.
His sentence was reduced to six years in prison after the Court of Appeal ruled there was an error in the way the original sentence was constructed.
John Browne, solicitor for the Treacy family, made a short statement on their behalf outside court afterwards.
