One of the men on trial for murdering a young man in the Mahon area of Cork last year went home and told his aunt minutes after the incident that “things got out of hand.”

A young plasterer was attacked by two men – each armed with a knife - and they then ran away laughing, an eyewitness in the Mahon murder trial claimed at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork today.

Two men were charged today with murdering a young father-of-two in Mahon, Cork, in August.