Woman gets seven years for ‘ferocious, frenzied’ stabbing

A WOMAN who inflicted six stab wounds on another woman in what a judge called a “ferocious, frenzied, brutal and savage,” attack in Drogheda has been jailed for seven years.

Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court heard Nicola Smith, aged 38, from Cannon Street, Kells, Co Meath, had taken head shop products as well as vodka and wine on top of prescription medications for a psychiatric illness at the time.

She pleaded guilty to assaulting causing serious harm to Therese Moore on West Street, Drogheda, Co Louth, on March 20, 2010.