One of the men on trial for murder in the Mahon area of Cork last year said he was not taking the blame for something he didn’t do and claimed that his co-accused was "the man".

ONE of the men on trial for murder in the Mahon area of Cork last year said he “probably lost it” and had never intended to kill the young man.

ONE of the men on trial for murdering a young man in the Mahon area of Cork last year told detectives hours later that he just wanted to curl up and die and later he admitted stabbing the victim three times.

One of the men on trial for murdering a young man in the Mahon area of Cork last year told detectives hours later that he just wanted to curl up and die and later he admitted stabbing the victim three times, it emerged today.

One of the men on trial for murdering a young man in the Mahon area of Cork last year went home and told his aunt minutes after the incident that “things got out of hand.”

AN EYEWITNESS in a murder trial in Cork was accused yesterday of colouring his evidence by claiming that the two accused were laughing after the attack.

The Mahon murder trial in Cork was told today that the cause of death was multiple stab wounds.

A young plasterer was attacked by two men – each armed with a knife - and they then ran away laughing, an eyewitness in the Mahon murder trial claimed at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork today.

A YOUNG plasterer was murdered by two men near his home in Cork shortly after the victim had a row with his ex-girlfriend, the prosecution claimed at the outset of a trial yesterday.

A young plasterer was murdered by two men near his home in Cork shortly after a verbal row with his former girlfriend, the prosecution claimed at the outset of a trial today.

AN inquest into the death of a man who was stabbed in Cork last summer was opened and adjourned yesterday because two men have been charged with his murder.

Two men were today sent forward for trial at the next sitting of the Central Criminal Court, charged with the murder of a young Cork man last August.

TWO men were charged yesterday with murdering a young father of two in Mahon in August.

Two men were charged today with murdering a young father-of-two in Mahon, Cork, in August.

ONE of the men charged in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in Mahon, Cork, in August, wanted to be released on bail yesterday to be of support to his pregnant girlfriend.

TWO men were charged yesterday in connection with the death of a father of two in a Cork suburb.

A second man is due to appear before Cork District Court later this evening in connection with the fatal stabbing of Brian McKee in the city at the weekend.