A round-up of today's other court stories in brief
Court told of 'inappropriate' injections
A senior lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has told a jury that, according to witness statements, a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients injected the patients in an inappropriate manner.
Alison McGarvey, a registered nursing tutor and an expert on the method and use of intra-muscular injections, was giving evidence on day 14 of the trial of a nurse who denies four charges relating to two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital three years ago.
Noreen Mulholland (35), now living in Park Road, Portadown, Co Armagh, and previously of Runabeg Close, Kildare, has pleaded not guilty to assault causing harm to John Gethings (77), of Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, on March 1st, 2003, and Seamus Doherty (80), Rathcoffey, Naas, Co Kildare, between June 18th and 19th, 2003.
Jury told of alleged cannibalism threat
The mother of two Dublin women accused of murdering her Kenyan boyfriend told gardaí he had threatened to cut her up and eat her from the fridge, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.
Sisters Charlotte (23) and Linda Mulhall (31) from Kilcare Gardens in Tallaght have both pleaded not guilty to the murder of Farah Swaleh Noor (also known as Sheilila Salim) at Richmond Cottages, Ballybough, on March 20th last year.
Under cross-examination by Isobel Kennedy SC, for Charlotte Mulhall, Det Sgt Gerard McDonnell said he had interviewed the women's mother, Kathleen Mulhall, who made allegations of assault and violent behaviour by Mr Noor. In one incident, he said she alleged he had held a knife to her and threatened to kill her, "put her in the fridge and eat her piece by piece".
A number of hospital reports from Cork where she lived with the deceased in 2003 showed she had attended there complaining of bruising and blurred vision. She was treated for fractured ribs and injuries to her hands and told of suffering assaults.
The trial continues.
Court rejects murder appeal
The Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected an appeal by two Dublin men against their conviction for the drive-by murder of a 25-year-old father of one outside Cloverhill Prison in 2004.
Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan, presiding for the three-judge court, said that the main thrust of the appeals related to the trial judge's directions to the jury on the issue of corroboration.
Mr Justice Geoghegan said that the court was satisfied the trial judge made no misdirection in relation to corroboration or the required warning to the jury.
Thomas Hinchon (26), St Ronan's Close, Clondalkin, and Brian Kenny (37), Kilshane Cross, Finglas, were each jailed for life in July 2005 for the murder of Jonathan O'Reilly, of St Mark's Gardens, Clondalkin, on April 17th, 2004.
Kenny was also sentenced to three years for threatening to kill Joseph O'Callaghan (20), and Hinchon to 18 months on the same charge. Kenny was also sentenced to three years for having a Beretta shotgun and to 12 months for having ammunition.
During the trial, the jury at the Central Criminal Court was told that the dead man was shot outside Cloverhill Prison as he sat in a BMW car.