A teenager accused of murdering his father rang for an ambulance and said his father had fallen over drunk outside their house, had been outside overnight and was not breathing, a jury has heard.

A witness at the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of killing a 32-year-old father of two in North Dublin three years ago has denied that he acted as a vigilante on the night of the incident.

Phone analysis places the mobile of Joe O'Reilly's co-worker in the vicinity of the Broadstone bus garage on the morning of the murder and is consistent with the account he gave gardaí.

There could be a "perfectly innocent explanation" for the presence of fingerprints of a man accused of double murder on the glasses of one of the victims, a defence lawyer has told a jury.

Two former co-workers of murder accused John Crerar told his trial that they saw him washing out the boot of his car with boiling water days after the disappearance of Kildare woman, Phyllis Murphy, over 22 years ago.

There were two large bloodstains on the ground and there was blood splattering on aluminium shutters at the scene of a fistfight that ended with one man being stabbed to death, a jury has heard.

An eyewitness to a fatal fight who alleged last Friday that he saw the accused man swinging a silver object at the deceased has accepted that it could have been a bracelet the accused was wearing.