A 34-year-old man accused of the murder of another man in a Dublin bar last year has been found guilty but insane by a jury in the Central Criminal Court.
Aidan Heneghan of Brosna Lawns, Mullingar, Co, Westmeath denied the murder of 43-year-old Frank McCann originally from Baillieborough, Co, Cavan on March 2, 2004 in the
The court heard that Heneghan suffered from paranoid delusions, a form of schizophrenia and was suffering from this at the time of the murder, consultant forensic psychologist, Dr Henry Kennedy said.
Heneghan believed that the deceased man had drugged and raped him, that images of him were posted on the internet, that members of the gay community knew this and made mocking remarks about him, the psychologist said.
However, there was no evidence that this ever happened.
The jury of six men and six women returned a guilty but insane verdict after deliberating for 32 minutes Mr Justice Paul Carney directed that he be detained at the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum "until the pleasure of the Government be known".
Front Lounge bar on Parliament Street, in Dublin city centre.