‘Losing our mum was like losing a part of us’ say Olivia Dunlea's children

A Corkman who tried to smother his girlfriend before stabbing her in the neck when she asked “what about my kids?” has been convicted of her murder.

Darren Murphy, aged 41, from Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 36-year-old mother of three Olivia Dunlea, but denied her murder.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork found him guilty of murder. It was his third trial on the same case.