Court hears accused hit victim's son before father was killed

A woman on trial for murdering a 66-year-old man hit his son over the head with a baseball bat shortly before the deceased was struck by a car and killed, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Giving evidence on the opening day of the Claire Nolan murder trial, Josephine Cunningham told the court that the accused had been drinking in her house with her daughter on the night Michael Duffy was killed, and that she “probably wasn't in the right frame of mind” at the time.