Killer refused permission to spend Christmas with her mother

 Maura Thornton killed her partner Kevin Joyce in  Galway on July 31, 2011.

A woman who killed her partner during a drunken row has been refused permission to spend Christmas with her mother.

Maura Thornton (38) from Inverin, Connemara, Co Galway was sentenced to ten years imprisonment with the final three suspended in 2013 after she was found guilty of the manslaughter of her former partner Kevin Joyce (59) outside her apartment in Salthill in Galway on July 31, 2011.