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