A nurse convicted of poisoning and assaulting patients in a hospital has received a four-year suspended sentence from Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A nurse convicted of poisoning and assaulting patients in a hospital had been branded "a killer" by sections of the media, her counsel said when her sentence was adjourned by Judge Frank O’Donnell.

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.