"On August 31, 2000, an 18-year-old boy died after being beaten and kicked outside a Dublin 4 nightclub Twenty-five years ago today, just before 5am, Brian Murphy was pronounced dead in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin. He was just a couple of kilometres from his home in Clonskeagh. He was less than a couple of kilometres from the Burlington Hotel, where two hours earlier paramedics found him badly beaten, his face cut and bleeding."
"He was two weeks short of his 19th birthday. It would be seven years before the various legal proceedings related to his death would conclude. By that time, it was a case better known for where it happened, at the hotel's Club Anabel, than it was by the victim's name."
On 31 August 2000, an 18-year-old was beaten and kicked outside a Dublin 4 nightclub and was pronounced dead in St Vincent's Hospital just before 5am. Paramedics had found him badly beaten with facial cuts and bleeding near the Burlington Hotel about two hours earlier. He was a couple of kilometres from his Clonskeagh home and two weeks short of his 19th birthday. Legal proceedings connected to his death took seven years to conclude. The case became more widely identified by its location at the hotel's Club Anabel than by the victim's name, Brian Murphy.
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