The Co Clare woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons has begun giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court.
Sharon Collins of Kildysart Road, Ennis, and Essam Eid, a poker dealer from Las Vegas, are on trial for conspiring to murder PJ Howard and his sons, Niall and Robert, in August 2006.
45-year-old Ms Collins told the court she was not 'lying eyes' - the name of the email account used to hire a hitman.
She also denied soliciting a hitman or conspiring to kill Mr Howard and his sons.
She told prosecuting counsel: 'your job may be to bring in a guilty verdict but I am not lying eyes'.
Ms Collins was asked about the significance of the email address and its connection to a well-known Eagles song.
She said she did not know about the song until recently when a friend sent her the first verse.
Prosecuting counsel said it was a song about a beautiful young woman who married a rich old man and was cheating on him.
Ms Collins said if that was the case it was a very bad minded person who wrote the emails.
It was put to her that it was a ludicrous situation to suggest that someone else was responsible for sending the emails from computers to which only she and the Howards had access.
Ms Collins replied that the position she finds herself in was ludicrous but she denied it was of her own making.
She said if someone sets out to have a person killed they would make some effort to cover their tracks.
RTÉ presenter gives evidence
Earlier, RTÉ radio presenter Gerry Ryan (left) told the trial that he did not directly receive emails from a woman accused of the crime.
The trial has already heard that Ms Collins wrote an intimate letter complaining of her partner's unusual demands for her to have sex with a stranger.
Ms Collins admitted to gardaí that she wrote the letter after a row with Mr Howard but denies she ever sent it to the Gerry Ryan Radio Show.
This morning, Mr Ryan told the court that the show receives 2,000 emails a month and only a fraction is broadcast.
He said all correspondence to the show is filtered by production staff and to the best of his knowledge he did not receive the emails.
He also confirmed that gardaí had not contacted him to ask if he had received them or if they could be retrieved from the station's computers.
An RTÉ computer expert told the court yesterday that an automated reply service indicated that the emails had reached the show's email account.
However Mr Ryan said that he would not be competent to confirm this.
The show's producer Siobhan Hough also gave evidence to say she did not receive the emails, one of which was titled 'sleeping with the enemy'.
She said she was not contacted by gardaí until earlier this month in relation to the emails.
The trial has also heard that Mr Howard wrote to the DPP in March last year saying he believed Ms Collins was being wrongly accused.
It emerged in cross-examination of a detective garda that Mr Howard had written: 'I feel myself very strongly that she is being accused in the wrong'.
