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The prosecution has said a 59-year-old homeless man suffered a particularly horrible death trapped head down in a rubbish chute - but the defence said the accused believed the victim would fall through the chute into a bin.

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Dr Margot Bolster, the Assistant State Pathologist, gave evidence that the cause of death was mechanical asphyxia, associated positional asphyxia and hypoxia or lack of oxygen due to being trapped inside the chute.

A survival scheme for a family construction company which has been involved in a number of important infrastructural projects has been approved by the High Court.

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Cork City's U19 team have bowed out of the UEFA Youth League after a narrow defeat by AS Roma today.

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There was an angry outburst from the murderer of a 59-year-old homeless man as he was being sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday at the end of a three-week trial.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a homeless person deliberated throughout yesterday without reaching a verdict. They will resume their deliberations on Tuesday.

The man who denies murder in the case where the body was found in a rubbish chute replied under cross-examination yesterday, “You are trying to make me out to be a fucking horrible bastard that I went out to kill this man”.

Man tells trial he thought victim would slide down into the rubbish and go about his business

The homeless man whose body was found in the rubbish chute of an apartment block suffered no fatal injuries beforehand and died as a result of asphyxia and lack of oxygen, a pathologist has said.

The man on trial for murder told gardaí more than a week after the deceased was found in the rubbish chute of an apartment complex that he prayed for him every day.

A witness in a murder trial testified yesterday that she laughed when the accused told her over the phone that he assaulted someone and threw him down a drainpipe because she thought it was impossible.

A murder trial witness said the accused first jokingly called a 59-year-old homeless man a paedophile and a kiddy-fiddler, then said it seriously and assaulted him, dragged him out of a flat, and came back saying “he has gone down the drain”.

Images of the late Liam Manley walking around the streets of Cork on Saturday night/Sunday morning, in the hours before he died, were shown to the jury on the opening day of the murder trial.

The man accused of murdering a homeless 59-year-old, whose body was found in an apartment complex rubbish chute, told a friend that night “the man was down the drain”, the prosecution claimed on the opening day of the trial yesterday.

A jury of seven women and five men was sworn in yesterday for the trial of a man accused of murdering a homeless man whose body was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May 2013.

A 27-year-old man is due to go on trial today charged with the murder of a Cork man whose body was found in a refuse chute in an apartment block.

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A murder charge was brought yesterday in the case where the body of a homeless man was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May.

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A 26-year-old man was charged with a count of assault causing harm following the investigation into the body of a homeless man found dumped in a refuse chute in Cork earlier this month.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with assaulting a homeless man whose body was found dumped in a refuse chute in Cork earlier this month.

A 27-year-old man is due to appear in court in Cork this morning, in connection with an assault on a man whose body was found in a refuse chute in an apartment complex in the city.

A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 58-year-old man whose body was found in a waste chute in Cork city centre.