Jury retires in stabbing trial

A jury has retired to consider a verdict in the trial of a 21-year-old Limerick man accused of stabbing a man to death in a fight outside a pub in the Southill area of the city in June 1999.

Christopher O'Callaghan, aged 21, of O'Malley Park, Southill, Limerick has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Michael Fitzpatrick, aged 19, of Yeats Avenue, Kincora Park, Southill outside the Olympic Arms pub on Roxboro Road on the night of June 25 1999.