'Black Widow' Catherine Nevin from Kildare passes away

Co Kildare woman Catherine Nevin - known as  the Black Widow - has died following a long illness.

The 67-year-old convicted murderer from Nurney had been granted temporary full-time release from prison in September of 2017.

She had been in palliative care after finding out last year that she is terminally ill with a brain tumour.

She passed away last night.

In 2000, Nevin was jailed for life having been convicted of murdering her husband Tom Nevin at their pub, Jack White’s Inn, near Brittas Bay, Co Wicklow, on March 19, 1996.

She also received a seven-year sentence for soliciting three men - Gerry Heapes, William McClean and John Jones - to kill her husband in 1989 and 1990.

Ms Nevin, who had always denied any involvement in the murder, lost an appeal against her conviction in 2003.

In 2010 she also lost an application to have her conviction declared a miscarriage of justice.