The Mahon murder trial in Cork was told today that the cause of death was multiple stab wounds.

A young plasterer was attacked by two men – each armed with a knife - and they then ran away laughing, an eyewitness in the Mahon murder trial claimed at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork today.

A YOUNG plasterer was murdered by two men near his home in Cork shortly after the victim had a row with his ex-girlfriend, the prosecution claimed at the outset of a trial yesterday.

AN inquest into the death of a man who was stabbed in Cork last summer was opened and adjourned yesterday because two men have been charged with his murder.

Two men were today sent forward for trial at the next sitting of the Central Criminal Court, charged with the murder of a young Cork man last August.

TWO men were charged yesterday with murdering a young father of two in Mahon in August.