A former Las Vegas poker dealer lost his appeal today against the severity of a six-year jail term handed down to him for demanding money with menace.

A Clare woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons denied that she was motivated by money a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The wife of a former Las Vegas poker dealer has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court she helped her husband make the deadly poison Ricin in their Nevada home.