Taxi driver testifies he heard accused say he kicked someone in head

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial admitted kicking someone in the head during a fight and hearing his head "snap or crack", a taxi driver has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Mr William Quigley said that Sean Mackey got into the front seat of his taxi and another male and female got into the back after his car was flagged down on Morehampton Road at about 2.45am on the night that Mr Murphy was kicked to death outside the Burlington Hotel.