A jury has been sent to a hotel overnight as they continue to deliberate in trial of a 22 year-old Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one.

Underlying resentment over allegations of sexual assault had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town, a murder trial jury were told today.

Underlying tension and resentment between two men had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town a murder trial jury were told today.