The State pathologist has told a jury that an elderly man who was allegedly poisoned by a nurse died of heart failure that was not related to an injection he received from the accused.

A nurse has admitted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that she should have immediately reported her colleague to her superiors after she saw her use excessive force to inject an unprescribed drug to a patient.

Gardaí investigating the death of a number of patients at Naas General Hospital say they have not yet received the results of important toxicology tests.

A man whose father’s body was exhumed by gardaí carrying out investigations at a hospital spoke today of the trauma his family had suffered during the past week.

THE inquiry into the activities of a nurse being investigated for the unauthorised administering of drugs to three elderly patients, two of whom died, is to be widened to include her work at a Dublin hospital.