The jury in the Tipperary murder trial has retired for a second evening without reaching a verdict.

50-year-old farmer Patrick Quirke from Breanshamore, County Tipperary denies murdering local DJ Bobby Ryan sometime between June 3rd 2011 and April 30th 2013.

Before the jury resumed its deliberations today, the foreman was handed two memory sticks – one from the prosecution and one from the defence.

Yesterday, they were handed stacks of folders – red ones from the prosecution, black ones from the defence.

They contained memos of Patrick Quirke’s interviews with Gardaí.

The prosecution believes Mr Quirke murdered his alleged love rival Bobby Ryan in an attempt to get back with Mr Ryan’s girlfriend Mary Lowry.

All of the evidence is circumstantial and the defence claims the case is based on theory – a theory it contends has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

The jurors have been deliberating for just over three-and-a-half hours now and will return to their jury room tomorrow morning.

They began their deliberations yesterday afternoon and, before they resumed at noon today, Ms Justice Eileen Creedon said that time, date and the location of death are an issue in the case.

However, she clarified that the prosecution does not have to prove the specific location of death – just that it occurred within Tipperary.

She said they could attribute whatever weight they wish to it as they continue to consider a verdict.

Reporting from Frank Greaney at the Central Criminal Court