A doctor on trial, charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter by giving her too much sedative, has denied that a suicide note she wrote afterwards was acknowledgment that she caused the girl’s death, saying: ‘I had lost my reason for living’.

An inspector has told the trial of a doctor accused of the manslaughter of her daughter, by giving her too much sedative, that investigating gardaí had not been “blinkered” about that being the only possible cause of death.

An Offaly GP accused of killing her severely disabled daughter admitted giving her too much of the sedative Chloral hydrate.

The trial of an Offaly GP accused of killing her daughter has heard she tried to drown herself after she knew the 11-year-old had passed away.

The partner of a woman on trial, charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter, has given evidence of his horror at finding the 11-year-old cold in her bed and being unable to wake her mother.

The partner of an Offaly GP accused of killing her 11-year-old daughter has told her trial that she would never have hurt her child.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.