A jury has been empanelled for the trial of a 49-year-old woman, who has been charged with the attempted murder of her daughter in Co Clare in 2022.
The accused, who cannot be named in order to protect the identity of the victim, has pleaded not guilty.
Jurors have been told the child in question was stabbed on multiple occasions, during an incident which took place at temporary accommodation in Clare, on 27 September 2022.
Evidence from more than 50 witnesses is listed to be presented over the course of the proceedings, before Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo.
When the charge was put to her this afternoon, she replied through an interpreter that she was "out of my mind at that moment in time", before formally entering a not guilty plea.
In his opening statement to the jury of seven men and five women, Lorcan Connolly SC, for the State, told them there were "certain peculiarities" that they would have to adjudicate on.
The court heard how the accused had fled the war in Ukraine and sought refuge here with her family in or around March 2022.
After residing at a number of locations, they found accommodation in Co Clare in late August/early September of that year.
The State's case is that the accused intended to kill the child by the "application of a knife to her body" and the use of a cable as a ligature.
Mr Connolly outlined how emergency services received reports that something untoward was happening in a room on the morning of Tuesday, 27 September 2022.
Gardaí arrived at the scene and tried to gain entry to the room where a "commotion was ensuing".
After having to forcibly enter the area in question, they found the accused holding her daughter in an en-suite bathroom.
The victim had cuts all over her torso, and her neck was also bleeding heavily.
Mr Connolly said a phone charging cable was found in her hair and there was a large volume of blood around her.
The girl had sustained life threatening injuries, with in excess of 70 wounds to her body.
She was taken to University Hospital Limerick, before being transferred to Crumlin Children’s Hospital in Dublin.
Mr Connolly said gardaí would give evidence about the state they found the accused in on the morning the incident took place. He told jurors she had no physical injuries but "seemed somewhat unresponsive".
She was also taken to hospital in Limerick where she was treated for a suspected drugs overdose.
There, she was incubated and ventilated, before being moved some days later to the acute psychiatric unit in Ennis.
An interview, conducted with the child by specialist gardaí, will be played to the jury over the course of the trial. In it, she will describe the conversations she had with her mother as the events unfolded.
Mr Connolly said the accused had told gardaí in interviews that her intention had been to end her own life and that of her daughter.
He went on to tell jurors that they would be asked to adjudicate on the evidence presented to them over the coming days and to determine if the accused had a requisite awareness of what she was doing or if she "was labouring under a mental disorder such that her conduct lacked the necessary intent".
The trial will resume at the Central Criminal Court in Limerick in the morning.
