A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

A senior doctor who treated a woman who died from multi-organ failure days after a caesarean section has said a 12-hour delay in reviewing her first set of blood tests was a mistake.

A 25-year-old Welsh woman who stabbed a middle-aged Leitrim man thirteen times admitted today under cross-examination that she had lost her head “completely” because she was drunk at the time and didn’t know what she was doing.