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Tue 05 May 2004Man gets seven years for knife deathA Galway man who stabbed a musician to death with a kitchen knife received a seven-year sentence for manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.Michael Reilly, of Corrach Buí, Rahoon, Galway, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Patrick Shaughnessy (28), of Coogan Park, Galway, when his trial began on April 19th last, but changed his mind a day later and decided to plead not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter.