"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 August 31, 2000, an 18-year-old boy died after being beaten and kicked outside a Dublin 4 nightclub. Just before 5am he was pronounced dead in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin, a couple of kilometres from his home in Clonskeagh. Two hours earlier paramedics had found him near the Burlington Hotel, badly beaten with his face cut and bleeding. He was two weeks short of his 19th birthday. Seven years passed before the legal proceedings related to his death concluded. By then the case had become better known for the hotel's Club Anabel than for the victim's name.
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