Robbie Walsh pleaded not guilty to Kilkee murder

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Robbie Walsh pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 8 February 2019.

The charge concerns Karl Haugh’s death in Kilkee’s Marian Estate on 6 August 2017.

The jury watched excerpts from Walsh’s Garda interviews during the continuing trial.

Walsh told detectives he stabbed Haugh during an altercation after arriving to damage a car.

He said he had not intended to kill anyone and believed he acted in fear.