The principal of Blackrock College has told the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial that he met one of the accused and another former student the morning after the incident and they wrote down their versions of what happened.

The ambulance that took Brian Murphy to hospital after he had been violently beaten outside the Burlington Hotel was slow to take him away because they thought he was intoxicated with drink, a witness has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A friend of Brian Murphy has told the trial of four youths charged with killing him outside the Burlington Hotel that he punched one of the accused a number of times because he believed he was part of a gang attacking him.

A girl who saw student Brian Murphy lying unconscious after he was violently assaulted outside the Burlington Hotel has told a jury that just afterwards she saw two youths holding one of the four accused who are charged with killing him.