A Limerick man who murdered a Ukrainian-born teenager by stabbing him through the chest has failed in an appeal against his conviction.

A 21-year-old Limerick man who was jailed for life for the murder of a Ukrainian teenager was sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting a 15 year-old youth in the same attack at the Central Criminal Court today.

A LIMERICK man was yesterday found guilty of the murder a schoolboy soccer star he stabbed to death when he stormed into a house where the boy was visiting friends.

THE break-up of a teenage romance may have sparked the fatal stabbing in Limerick that claimed the life of a 16-year-old Ukrainian boy.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested a 16-year-old in connection with the fatal stabbing of another teenager.