Four-year suspended sentence for nurse Mulholland

A nurse convicted of poisoning and assaulting patients in a hospital has received a four-year suspended sentence from Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge O’Donnell said Noreen Mulholland (aged 35) now living in Park Road, Portadown, Co Armagh and previously of Runabeg Close, Kildare was a nurse in charge of two men who were entrusted into her care and that her behaviour represented a "serious breach of trust towards the most vulnerable in our society."