The husband of Siobhán Kearney, the woman found dead in her south Dublin home two years ago, is due to go on trial for her murder at the Central Criminal Court today.
Brian Kearney (50) has been on bail pending the trial since he was charged with her murder last summer.
When the charge was put to him in May 2007, he pleaded not guilty.
The body of Ms Kearney (38), a mother of one, was discovered by a relative in an upstairs bedroom of a house at Carnroe, Knocknashee, Goatstown, Dublin, on February 28th, 2006.
She had been strangled with the flex of a vacuum cleaner and her body had been locked into the bedroom of the house.
Her three-year-old son Dan was found in the house as his mother lay dead upstairs.
Ms Kearney was a chef, and had worked in the catering trade.
Before her death, she and her husband had run a small hotel in the Sóller region of Majorca and they divided their time between there and Dublin.