A 23-year-old man who killed another man in an unprovoked attack during which he was dragged under a car after being attacked with a machete, has been jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court.

A Co Louth man is to be sentenced today for killing a man who was attacked with a machete and dragged along under a car.

A jury in the trial of a 23 year-old man accused of murder has heard that a senior investigating garda was "stretching" when he told a central witness during questioning that he could be placed at the scene of the alleged murder.

The Central Criminal Court has heard evidence about a conversation during which a man on trial for murder told his friend that he was out hijacking cars when he “knocked down” a man.