The 54 year-old man accused of hacking to death a taxi driver in Clare was "making up" stories about voices telling him to commit the killing, a forensic psychiatrist told a jury in the Central Criminal Court today.

A Clare man accused of murdering a hackney driver with a hatchet cried in a garda interview as he admitted the killing and said he’d never "even hurt an animal" in his life, a court has been told.

A Clare man accused of murdering a hackney driver with a hatchet got a 14 year-old boy to help him destroy evidence of the killing, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man accused of murdering a Clare taxi driver told gardaí he felt he was "possessed" when he killed him, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.