Man murdered after bonfire party

A 21-YEAR-OLD found stabbed to death in Tipperary had been arrested just hours earlier for causing a disturbance at a bonfire.

Jamie Lonergan, aged 21, from 8 Cooleens Close, Clonmel, was arrested around 10pm Thursday and brought to the local garda station. He was questioned and released without charge.

Five hours later, gardaí were called to waste ground just behind the local psychiatric hospital. There they found him lying in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds to his face and body. They immediately launched a murder investigation.