A Co Limerick man died after "irreversible and irrevocable" injuries to the brain caused by a heavy object, a murder trial jury heard today.

A Co Clare man took part in a joint enterprise to rob and assault a Limerick man whose badly beaten body was found on a lonely road near a Co Tipperary village in 1998, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court was told today.

A Co Clare man has denied the murder and false imprisonment of a 21-year-old man near a village in Co Tipperary in December of 1998.