Court hears murder-accused said: 'It was him or me that was getting stabbed'

A man accused of stabbing his partner's lover to death after catching her cheating told gardaí that the deceased came at him with a knife and, "it was either him or me that was getting stabbed," a murder trial has heard.

Keith Connorton (40) said he managed to turn the knife around and stab 32-year-old Graham McKeever at the accused's home at Deerpark Avenue, Tallaght on February 18, 2017.