A "gulf between reality and unreality" has been opened during the trial of a homeless man accused of murder, a defence counsel told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A man who died following a beating in a derelict house in Cork in 1997 was

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".