A man has been jailed for three years for swinging a golf club into the chest of another male outside his home in the early hours after St Patrick’s Day.

A retired pathologist has told a manslaughter trial that he disagrees with the conclusions of the chief State pathologist that the alleged victim died from a rare type of cardiac arrest.

A lethal disruption of heart rhythm occurring as a result of a blow to the chest directly over the heart at a critical time caused the death of an alleged victim of manslaughter, a court has heard.

A man has been charged by gardaí investigating the death of a 21-year-old man in Dublin yesterday.