Limerick man sentenced to life for murder

A 21-year-old Limerick man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another youth during 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 had 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.