Accused nurse had permission to give injection, court hears

A nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients told gardaí she bleeped a doctor and got permission to give one of them an intra muscular injection of a drug called Serenase.

Ms Noreen Mulholland (aged 35), now living in Park Road, Portadown, Co Armagh, also said during interview that Mr Seamus Doherty (aged 80), Rathcoffey, Naas, County Kildare, had struck her on the arm with his own arm while she was trying to calm him down.