At a sentencing hearing at Naas Circuit Criminal Court on Friday, Murphy, who had kept his head bowed in court, showed no visible reaction as Judge Elva Duffy sentenced him to five years in prison.

The pedestrian, a man aged in his 40s, was pronounced deceased and his body remains at the scene.

Following a post-mortem examination, An Garda Síochána commenced a murder investigation.

The jury in the trial of a 24-year-old man accused of murdering Dylan McCarthy during a melee outside a pub in a Kildare town nearly three years ago will continue their deliberations for a third day

It is the State’s case that Dylan McCarthy died following punches and “a vicious kick” to the head from Calvin Dunne.