A man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of 38-year-old Martin Murray in Drogheda this week.

A 32-year-old man was charged today with the murder of a man in Drogheda, Co Louth, yesterday morning.

A 20-year-old Louth man accused of the murder of his infant nephew told gardai that he had strangled the child before trussing him up with rope and dropping him off a railway bridge into the water below, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Co Louth man today pleaded not guilty to the murder of his infant nephew in Drogheda, almost two years ago, when he was arraigned at the Central Criminal Court.