A 23-year-old father-of-one has admitted killing a man, who was attacked with a machete before being dragged along the road by a car, following a three-week trial at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in an ongoing murder trial has heard that the partner of the accused man told gardaí he came home late and upset one night in December 2006, and told her “something bad had happened”.

A 23-year-old on trial for murder told gardaí he couldn't explain why there were phone calls between his mobile and that of the man he is accused of killing, during the time the man was dying in hospital.

An eye witness has described for a murder trial how he saw a car being rammed and “shoved on top” of a man who was lying in the middle of a road, and screaming in pain.