Two young Dublin men have been found not guilty of murdering a civil servant by direction of Mr Justice Liam McKechnie at the Central Criminal Court today.

Two men accused of murdering a civil servant told a prosecution witness they "milled" a man and left him lying in a pool of blood, a murder trial heard today.

A civil servant who died after a beating had "patterns" on his face consistent with "stamping", a murder trial was told yesterday.

A witness in a murder trial today denied parts of her Garda statement which she made after the murder of a civil servant in 1998.

A hackney driver has told a murder trial that he saw a man lying on the ground being punched by another man while a third man stood over him.

A 43-year-old civil servant was beaten and kicked because he refused to give cigarettes to two young Dublin men accused of his murder, it was claimed in the Central Criminal Court today.