A 22-year-old witness in a murder trial told Gardaí he was in the passenger seat of a car when his friend, who was driving, reached across him with a gun and shot a man in front of him.

The Deputy State Pathologist has told a murder trial that the bullet used to shoot a young carpenter in Limerick in 2009, traveled straight through his head piercing his brain and fracturing his skull.

A 20-year-old Limerick man is due to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court later this week for the murder of a young carpenter just over a year ago.

A Limerick man is due to go on trial today for the murder of a carpenter.