The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 60-year-old man in a “vicious, one-sided, sustained attack” is expected to retire today to consider its verdict.

A 60-year-old man made “a flippant comment about oral sex” while drinking with a group in an apartment in Waterford on the night he was beaten to death, said a witness in a murder trial.

The last words of a man being beaten to death were a plea to his attacker to stop hitting him, a court has heard.

A man has been charged with assault today at Waterford District Court today in connection with the death of Joe O'Brien in the city on Monday night.

The body of a Waterford woman whose husband is on trial for her murder would have been dumped in a river not far from where her body was found two weeks after her disappearance a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.