Accused stabbed ex’s lover, court hears
Patrick Murphy, 27, died in hospital shortly after he was stabbed in the abdomen in a house at 42 The Glen, Waterford, at about 5.15am on June 20 last year.
John Flaherty, aged 25, of Árd Daire, Ferrybank, Waterford, denies murdering Mr Murphy but has admitted assaulting his ex-partner and the mother of his three children, Amy Quigley, aged 25, causing her harm.