Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the fatal stabbing of a man in a Dublin hotel early on New Year's Day.
Martin McLoughlin (21), from Cherrywood Park, Clondalkin, died in the Mater hospital, Dublin, yesterday from injuries suffered in the attack in Jurys hotel near Croke Park.
It is understood Mr McLoughlin had checked into the hotel with friends for the New Year's Eve celebrations.
Chief Supt Mick Feehan appealed for anyone who may have seen an altercation take place in the hotel to contact Fitzgibbon Street station.
Gardaí have forensically examined a stretch of corridor in the hotel that had been cordoned off. It is understood the dead man had been given first aid at the scene, after he had been stabbed in the chest.
Chief Supt Feehan declined to say whether the weapon involved was a knife or whether it had been recovered at the scene but said the Garda had received "good co-operation" in the investigation.