‘I tried to stop stab attack on boyfriend’

A woman has told a murder trial that she tried to intervene while her boyfriend was being stabbed to death by two men.

Sharon Kelly was giving evidence in the trial of two men accused of murdering 31-year-old Shane Murphy at The Grove, Pallasgreen, Co Limerick on April 30, 2015.

Dylan Hayes, aged 22, of The Crescent, Kilteragh, Dooradoyle, Co Limerick, and Ger Hogan, aged 33, of Raheen Square, Ballinacurra Weston, Co Limerick, have pleaded not guilty.