He was four years into his sentence.
A Laois man who killed a four year old boy while drink driving in 2014 has been released from prison.
The Irish Daily Star reports that forty one year old Finbarr O'Rourke of Portlaoise left a facility in Wicklow yesterday after serving four years.
He was originally sentenced to seven and a half years in 2016 after being convicted of dangerous driving causing the death of Ciaran Tracey in Portarlington.
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