A 26-year-old Galway woman who is nine months pregnant is to be sentenced on Wednesday for killing her neighbour in a row over a dog.
Una Black, of Droim Chaoin on Bishop O Donnell Road in Galway, admitted the manslaughter of 42-year-old John Malone at Walter Macken flats in Mervue on 3 December 2006.
The Central Criminal Court that Ms Black and her partner had befriended John Malone and regularly socialised together.
He had agreed to allow Ms Black to keep a puppy in his flat along with his own but a row developed when he complained she had not been taking her dog out.
On the night of the killing, Ms Black had been taking flu medication, anti depressants and had been drinking hot whiskeys.
Mr Malone came to her flat to drink but an argument started over the dog and he left. After hearing he was going to sell the dog she then went to his home armed with a knife and tried to take her dog.
A struggle ensued and Ms Black told gardai she did not know how he was stabbed.
The court heard Mr Malone died from a single stab wound to the chest. Ms Black initially denied any involvement, but after her arrest she made a statement to gardaí.
