A witness has told a Wicklow murder trial that he thought he saw brain when he checked on a man he had seen being beaten on the side of a road.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to try a 23-year-old Greystones man charged with murdering a fellow Greystones man last year.

A man accused of murdering his friend using a rock told gardaí “I only hit him about two or three times”.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his friend has heard the deceased was “abusive” with everyone he came into contact with on the day he was killed.