Man stabbed to death in Ireland over chess dispute

London: In a gruesome incident, an Irish man in Dublin was brutally beaten and stabbed to death allegedly by an Italian over a row during a chess match.

Tom O`Gorman, 39, was stabbed to death at his home in the Irish capital in the early hours of yesterday. Saverio Bellante, a 34-year-old Italian national from Palermo in Sicily, was arrested in connection with the murder and brought before Blanchardstown District Court this morning. Irish police responded to an emergency call and when they reached the house, a large detached property in a middle-class area of the west Dublin suburb, they found the victim. It is understood he had received stab wounds and had been assaulted. The man who raised the alarm was still at the house when police arrived, the Irish Times reported. Sergeant Patrick Traynor told the court he arrested Bellante at the scene to charge him at Blanchardstown Garda station. He told the court that when cautioned at the police station, Bellante replied: "I am guilty". Police believe he was the only person in the house when the deceased was fatally attacked. They ruled out alcohol as a factor in the killing and said it may have been triggered after a chess piece was moved on a board inside the property. The body remained at the scene overnight and underwent a preliminary examination this morning at the scene by State Pathologist Prof Marie Cassidy. The remains were then removed to the city morgue, in Marino, north Dublin, for a full postmortem. O`Gorman worked as a researcher for the Iona Institute, a Dublin-based Catholic advocacy group that promotes the place of marriage and religion in society.