A 29 year old homeless man charged with murdering another homeless man in the Phoenix Park in Dublin has changed his plea to guilty.

Ciaran Moran - with an address at Camden Hall, Camden Street in Dublin - is accused of murdering 36 year old Gerard Donnelly in November 2013.

He had pleaded not guilty to the murder and his trial began at the Central Criminal Court last week.

This afternoon he changed his plea to guilty after the Judge ruled his trial jury should hear his descriptive confession to murder.

The jury has been discharged and the case will return next Wednesday.