'I just wish I could go back in time ... I wish I had a time machine,' Deirdre Morley tells court

Woman who suffocated her three young children says she was  'a people pleaser' and had tried to hide the extent of her mental deterioration and her darkening thoughts from her family

Conor, Darragh, and Carla pictured with their father Andrew McGinley.

“I just wish I could go back in time ... I wish I had a time machine,” a woman who suffocated her three young children told the Central Criminal Court.

Deirdre Morley is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of Conor McGinley, aged 9, Darragh McGinley, aged 7, and Carla McGinley, aged 3, at their home in Parson’s Court, Newcastle, Co Dublin, on January 24 last year.