The trial of three men accused of the murder of a Limerick nightclub doorman is in its final stages at the Central Criminal Court sitting at Cloverhill.
Gary Campion (24), Pineview Gardens, Moyross, Limerick, Desmond Dundon (23), Ballinacurra Weston, Co Limerick, and Anthony Kelly (50), Kilrush, Co Clare, have pleaded not guilty to murdering Brian Fitzgerald (34) on November 29th, 2002, at Brookhaven Walk, Mill Road, Corbally, Limerick.
Seán Gillane, prosecuting, told the jury of 12 men that there was a central truth in this case. "A core truth that is unchallenged and unchallengeable" is that James Martin Cahill, the chief prosecution witness, had shot and killed Mr Fitzgerald. Cahill is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Mr Fitzgerald.
Mr Gillane told the jury that looking backwards they could see other facts that radiate out from that one central fact. He said there was enough truth in Cahill's evidence to see what facts connected to that truth.
He urged the jury not to discount Cahill's evidence because they were repulsed by him.
During his evidence Cahill had admitted to being involved in up to seven other murders and also abusing children and animals, including a baby and a dog. He also claimed to have fantasised about sex with a horse and with his mother.
Even though the evidence against two of the accused, Mr Kelly and Mr Dundon, was not corroborated, Mr Gillane said there was corroborating video evidence against Mr Campion that bore out Cahill's evidence.
Conor Devally SC, defending, said Cahill was a "dangerous, dangerous" witness who sought to please anyone in power or who had control over his life.
He had changed his story to make himself fascinating to gardaí, to psychologists and to erase people who he had previously said had taken part in the murder.