A 51-year-old Kildare man has been convicted of the murder of his former partner in May 2010.
Michael McDonald, of Barnhill, Castledermot, Co Kildare, was found guilty by a unanimous jury verdict of the murder of Breda Cummins.
He stabbed her to death at her home in Athy in Co Kildare.
He was also found guilty of assault causing harm to her new partner John Lawlor.
McDonald had been in a relationship with Ms Cummins, but they had split up six weeks before she was killed.
Ms Cummins, a 31-year-old mother-of-one, had formed a new relationship with Mr Lawlor, 33, and had moved into his friend's house at Michael Dooley Terrace in Athy.
In the early hours of 13 May 2010, McDonald armed himself with a kitchen knife and took a taxi from his home in Castledermot to Ms Cummins' new home.
He told the taxi to wait and then went into the house, got into a row with Mr Lawlor, and stabbed him in the hand when he raised it to defend himself.
Ms Cummins told Mr Lawlor to go downstairs and wash his hand but McDonald then went into the bedroom with her and stabbed her six times in the chest.
He then left the house, but the taxi had gone, so he went down an alleyway and stuck the kitchen knife in a garden, where it was later found by gardaí.
McDonald admitted killing Ms Cummins, but had pleaded not guilty to her murder and not guilty to assault causing harm to Mr Lawlor.
However, after deliberating for two hours and 41 minutes, the jury found him unanimously guilty on both counts.
Ms Justice Iseult O'Malley sentenced him to life in prison.
Breda's sister June Cummins said the family were devastated, that she was a great mother, sister and auntie and did not deserve to die the way she did, adding that no one does.
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