Two women have been jailed for four years for killing a grandfather at a party in Waterford last year.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 60-year-old man in a “vicious, one-sided, sustained attack” is expected to retire today to consider its verdict.

A 60-year-old man made “a flippant comment about oral sex” while drinking with a group in an apartment in Waterford on the night he was beaten to death, said a witness in a murder trial.

The last words of a man being beaten to death were a plea to his attacker to stop hitting him, a court has heard.