A nurse has been convicted by a jury of assaulting two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital and of poisoning one of them three years ago.

The jury in the trial of a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict on day-18 of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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.