Insanity issue brought up in Dublin bar murder trial

The trial of a 34-year-old man accused of the murder of another man in a Dublin bar has heard the issue of insanity arises in the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

Prosecuting barrister Mr Edward Comyn SC in his opening speech to the jury that the issue of insanity "arises in this case". "It was lodged in the accused man’s mind, obsessively lodged, that the man had attacked him on a pervious occasion had raped him," the prosecutor said.