There were two large bloodstains on the ground and there was blood splattering on aluminium shutters at the scene of a fistfight that ended with one man being stabbed to death, a jury has heard.

An eyewitness to a fatal fight who alleged last Friday that he saw the accused man swinging a silver object at the deceased has accepted that it could have been a bracelet the accused was wearing.

A Limerick publican broke down in the witness box today as he told a murder trial how a "desperate looking" 19-year-old made feeble movements towards him before collapsing from stab wounds during a fight outside the publican's premises in the Southill area of the city two years ago.