Man pleads not guilty to murder

A Co Clare man took part in a joint enterprise to rob and assault a Limerick man whose badly beaten body was found on a lonely road near a Co Tipperary village in 1998, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court was told today.

Prosecuting counsel Mr Eamonn Leahy SC told the jury that Michael Sage and two other people had assaulted Mr John Carroll after they spent the night drinking at Killaloe in Co Clare.