A forensic psychiatrist for the State has told a Mayo man’s murder trial that he was voluntarily intoxicated, leading him to act in ‘an extremely impulsive and violent way’, when he killed two elderly brothers with special needs. She said he did not have a mental disorder in law, reports Natasha Reid.

A Mayo man killed two elderly brothers in their home just hours after telling strangers in a pub that he was a doctor who would carry out autopsies on any bodies found that night, reports Natasha Reid.