A jury was sent to a hotel tonight in the trial of a Dublin man who admits a cut-throat killing but denies that it was murder.

A man who admits a cut-throat killing has told a jury that he does not know why he did it.

A man accused of a cut-throat killing could have taken sleeping tablets or painkillers along with alcohol before he kicked and then stabbed an older man to death in Inchicore four years ago.

A Dublin man has gone on trial in the Central Criminal Court for cutting the throat of an older man in Inchicore four years ago.