A Brazilian man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing his flatmate more than 40 times after an argument over her relationships with other men has failed in an appeal against his conviction.

A 33-year-old Brazilian man has been convicted by a jury of murdering his lover in a fit of jealousy at their flat in Co Offaly.

A Brazilian woman stabbed to death in a frenzied attack was planning to bring her children to Ireland to start a new life together, it emerged tonight.