Gardaí carefully placed a green-coloured blanket over the toddler, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

TWO neighbours — one of whom is charged with the murder of the other — were involved in a previous antagonistic verbal dispute to which gardaí were called, the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Limerick, heard yesterday.

A MAN charged with murder who claims he acted in self-defence had marks to his back consistent with having been hit with an implement, the Central Criminal Court in Limerick was told yesterday.

A man was being questioned by murder squad detectives today after a man in his 20s was stabbed to death.