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 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.

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.