A senior lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons has told a jury that, according to witness statements, a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients injected the patients in an inappropriate manner.

A nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients told gardaí she bleeped a doctor and got permission to give one of them an intra muscular injection of a drug called Serenase.

A nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital told gardaí that she had given one of them an intra muscular injection of Serenase which she claimed had been prescribed for him.

A doctor has told a jury that he prescribed Serenase to a patient at Naas General Hospital after he was bleeped because the patient was hitting and kicking staff and was considered a danger to himself and others.

A ward sister has told a jury that she couldn’t recall having a conversation with a nurse accused of poisoning two patients in relation to her giving one of them an injection the previous night.

A hospital care assistant has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that she saw a nurse on trial for allegedly poisoning patients "quite forcefully and quite roughly" give an injection to an elderly patient.

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 former colleague of a nurse charged with poisoning two patients has told a jury that she saw her "brutally dart" an injection into one of them before throwing water over him and threatening him.

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.

A nurse has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that a former colleague on trial for assaulting elderly patients should not have been working unsupervised due to lack of training and alleged "problems".

A nurse allegedly poisoned two elderly men in Naas General Hospital three years ago after using excessive force to administer unprescribed drugs to them, a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told.

A NURSE accused of assaulting and wrongly medicating two patients, one of whom died, at Naas General Hospital has been sent forward for trial to the Circuit Criminal Court.

GARDAÍ have not yet ruled out the possibility of criminal charges in their investigation into the deaths of two patients at Naas General Hospital.

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.

INVESTIGATORS have removed items from the home of a nurse at the centre of allegations of overdosing patients at Naas General Hospital.

EXPERTS appointed to head up the internal inquiry into the suspicious deaths of two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital meet today to begin their investigation.

THE nurse at the centre of an investigation into two suspicious deaths at Naas General Hospital is “distressed and upset” at allegations that she may have acted unprofessionally.

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.