A father of four has been cleared of murdering a man with a baseball bat in broad daylight on a busy street in what one witness described as “like something out of Star Wars”.

A man has told his murder trial he was afraid for his life when he hit another man on the head with a baseball bat.

A 39-year-old man has gone on trial charged with murdering a 45-year-old man with a baseball bat in “broad daylight”.

A man who was attacked with a baseball bat in Swords in Dublin last month has died in hospital.