House-party guests 'cheered death fight'

A Waterford man who attended a house party at which a teenager was fatally stabbed in a brawl recalled at the Central Criminal Court today people present watching and cheering the fight.

Eoin Barrett was giving evidence in the trial of Justin Longman (aged 19), of Larchville, Waterford, who denies murdering Brian O’Neill (aged 18), of Ardmore Park, Ballybeg, Waterford, at Woodlawn Grove in the city on February 13, 2005.