The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in an Galway woman's appeal against the severity of the nine year prison sentence she received for stabbing her neighbour to death following a row over a puppy.

A Galway woman, who was jailed this summer for stabbing her neighbour to death in a drunken row over a dog, has given birth to a baby girl.

A Galway woman who absconded to Wales the day before she was due to go on trial for the murder of a man in the city is back in custody.