Gardai believe a man may have been knifed to death at a house in Wicklow in a drink-fuelled row.
The victim, named locally as Juris Viktorovs and originally from Lithuania, was stabbed a number of times at the property in Ballyconnell in Wicklow, on Thursday evening at around 8.15pm.
Gardai attached to the murder probe believe there was a gathering with a number of people present there.