Witness denies acting as 'vigilante'

A witness at the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of killing a 32-year-old father of two in North Dublin three years ago has denied that he acted as a vigilante on the night of the incident.

Mr Emmett Taaffe told defence counsel Mr Brendan Grehan SC in cross examination denied that he had not attacked a group of youths for revenge for an attack on his younger brother "Tone". "How could I be acting like a vigilante? I was acting like a concerned brother."