A woman serving life for murder has had her conviction quashed after the Court of Appeal found her jury should have been allowed consider whether she had been provoked by her late partner before killing him.

A jury has heard how a woman accused of murdering her partner in Co Louth last year allegedly stabbed the deceased four times with a large kitchen knife.

A jury has heard how a 42-year-old Louth woman accused of murdering her partner in Louth last year allegedly stabbed the deceased four times with a large kitchen knife.