Murder accused was on medication, court hears

The jury in the trial of a man who denies murdering his close friend has heard that the accused had health problems at the time of the incident and was on long-term medication.

Witness for the defence, Dr Colm Bergin, a consultant physician at St James's Hospital, told the Central Criminal Court that Martin Toland was transferred to his care in 2005, from a hospital in Spain where he had been treated for deep vein thrombosis, and an infection of parts of the heart.