A little girl stabbed on Parnell Square had 'no pulse' and was 'not breathing' when paramedics arrived, the trial has heard.

A witness in the Parnell Square stabbing trial told the jury he punched and kicked the accused because he believed the man 'had to be put down' to stop the knife attack on children.

Mr Balogun, a student at Maynooth University and living in Dundalk, Co Louth, was fatally attacked after attending a gig at a premises on Grafton Street in the early hours of Monday morning, June 1.

The male in his 20s is due to appear before the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin on Friday morning.

The Irish Mirror has established that he was stabbed in the arm in the initial attack on Grafton Street - before being pursued onto nearby Clarendon Street, where he was attacked again, this time with fatal consequences

Mr Ryan fell to the ground and called Lawlor a 'dirtbird' before shouting: "You stabbed me in the artery, you f**king eejit"