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A man who fatally stabbed his friend after a drunken argument turned violent has been jailed for more than five years.

I'd entered my first one as a drunken dare after a relationship ended.

In January, he was found guilty of attempted murder, and Judge Alice Robinson said at sentencing on Friday: "It was an angry, drunken and petulant, albeit extreme, reaction."

Indeed, modern-day affirmative stereotypes about the Irish as a drunken and sentimental tribe of poets, dreamers and pugilists closely mirror older, more negative stereotypes, rendered charming instead of threatening.

For decades, this fixture kept the police stretched with drunken sporadic violence.