A 21-year-old Limerick man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another youth during a fight outside a pub in the Southill area of the city in June 1999.

A jury in the trial of a 21-year-old Limerick man accused of the murder of another youth during a fight outside a pub in the Southill area of the city in June 1999 is still considering its verdict.

A senior counsel has accused a Limerick solicitor of advising his client, a youth accused of murder, to lie to gardaí.

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.

The victim of a stabbing outside a Limerick pub three years ago went to the toilet and never came back, his friend told a murder trial today.

A Limerick publican thought he saw a third man at the scene of a fatal stabbing outside his pub two years ago, a murder trial has heard.

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.