The jury in the trial of a Wicklow man accused of gunning down a father of two in front of his girlfriend and son will spend a third day trying to reach a verdict today.

The jury in the trial of a Wicklow man accused of shooting dead a father of two in front of his partner and son, has been sent home for the weekend having failed to reach a verdict.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that detectives travelled to Austria and Switzerland with a can of Red Bull discovered at the scene of a fatal shooting, in an effort to establish if it had been bought at a Dublin Spar shop.