Accused 'regretted not stealing money'

A murder accused who admitted to beating a man with a hurley regretted not robbing money from the man as he lay dying, a witness alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

Mr Joe Delaney (aged 20) told a murder trial jury that one of the accused, Mr Martin O'Leary, told his friends that he "should have taken the €100 that Doc had taken from a man near the Castle" after he described beating the victim’s head with a hurley.