Gary Walsh denies murder as trial opens in Dublin

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Gary Walsh denied murdering Cathal Sweeney at the Central Criminal Court, in a trial reported on 6 October 2015. Walsh had pleaded not guilty to murder after Sweeney was fatally attacked at a house in Terenure on 8 February 2014.

The prosecution said the case involved an alleged assault at a flat in Ashdale Gardens, where Walsh and two other men had been present. Walsh had also pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but the State did not accept that plea; the trial was expected to continue for several days.