A bubbly, happy woman who was a role-model and best friend to her children was murdered by her husband in what a judge has described as another case in the conveyor belt of "tragic cases which spring from domestic violence."
Alan Ward stabbed his wife Catherine Doyle to death at their Dublin home in 2019.
Passing the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for murder today, Mr Justice Tony Hunt called on people who find themselves rising to anger to "step back rather than engage in the kind of behaviour seen in this case".
