The court has heard that Mr Butler’s nephew, Anthony (Tony) O’Grady, told gardai that Mr Butler had walked over and stabbed his friend as they sat and chatted. However, Mr Butler entered the witness box yesterday and gave a different account. He told Michael Bowman SC, defending, that Mr O’Grady and the deceased had visited him in Tramore with another friend that night. He said that they had been drinking and that the mood had been good until Mr O’Grady became upset about his brother’s death a few years earlier. Mr Butler told the court that he had tried to talk to his nephew about it.

Source: Irish Examiner April 16, 2018 17:03 UTC