A homeless man pleading not guilty to murdering a Dublin pensioner told gardaí he “lost the head” and “hit the old fella in the chest twice” a court heard.

The trial of a homeless man accused of murdering a Dublin pensioner in his home will resume before a jury today, after the jurors were sent home again yesterday for a third day of legal argument.

The trial of a homeless man accused of murdering a Dublin pensioner in his home will spend a second day in legal argument tomorrow.

The jury in a Dublin murder trial saw footage of a man entering the murder scene before the crime and then exiting before leaving the area.

A 70-year-old man, who was attacked in his Dublin home, died of blunt force trauma to the head, the State Pathologist has told the Central Criminal Court.

A number of witnesses have testified at a murder trial that the accused told them he had beaten the victim hours before he was found unconscious in his home.

A homeless man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering an elderly man in his Dublin City Centre home.