A jury hearing the trial of a Chinese national who shot and killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a robbery has retired to consider its verdict at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

A jury hearing the trial of a Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a robbery, has been told there is an absence of evidence to prove he deliberately pointed and fired the gun which killed the man.

A man who is on trial for the murder of a Kilkenny postmaster, who he shot following a raid that netted him about €15,000, told postal clerks "thanks" as he left, a court has heard.