A witness told a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court today that a man accused of murdering another man in a derelict house in Cork in 1997 admitted he had "finished him off".

A prosecution witness today denied that he was lying to "save his own skin" under cross-examination at a murder trial in the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man who died in a derelict house in the city in 1997 received multiple blows to the head from weapons that included a toaster, a murder trial jury has heard.