A murder trial witness said yesterday that the Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon told him on the night in question that he had killed the victim by cutting his throat.

A man accused of murder was “looking for trouble” on the night in question, a witness said on the second day of the trial in Cork yesterday.

“They are enthusiasmus,” protested Giovanni Trapattoni before the start, falling back on his favourite word, one more time.

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

A soundtrack of the circumstances surrounding the murder of 27-year-old Jonathan Duke was available to the jury complete with noise from an upstairs apartment, the dragging of a body down the stairs, comments by the accused woman, and her laughing like a hyena afterwards.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was laughing hysterically in the Garda station holding cell within hours of her arrest, the last prosecution witness in her trial testified yesterday.

With Morrissey in the house, we started something we couldn’t finish.

Right from the opening exchanges, the night held promise. Key men on their games, getting stuck in, making their presence felt.

Clearly, Chippy wasn’t feeling so chirpy, and it wasn’t just a routine case of the Monday morning blues.

Jack and Wes. The neighbour’s lad and our own. We clung to these slight men this week with a need that might have looked a touch desperate.

‘Ooofff!’

With less than a week to go, we are still mired, rear wheels spinning, in nostalgia.

HIS DIARY is stuffed with tour dates, the punters are laughing long and loud, TV producers are devising new formats for him to front on a seemingly daily basis.

A spectacular week of European football reminded us of many things.

A wheelchair-bound pensioner has been caught on camera apparently stealing a mechanical elf from a garden centre in Britain.

After the trigger word ‘Saipan’ was alluded to, Keane quickly and clinically rattled through the shortcomings of half of Capello’s squad.

PAUL LAWRIE has a chance this weekend to achieve something which has even eluded Tiger Woods so far.

A spectacular six-under-par round of 66 saw Ireland's Jonathan Caldwell storm into contention at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles today.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own. Today, and every Tuesday, he will be acting as referee on your opinions on the Premiership. Let him know what you think and he’ll argue the toss with you.

STILL haven’t quite gotten my head around Liverpool v Arsenal on Tuesday night — all that passion, drama, craziness and controversy.

FOOTBALL supporters of Ireland, their country needs you.