A nurse has been convicted by a jury of murdering her mother during a Christmas Eve row in Dublin four years ago.

Greta Dudko of Station Court Hall, Clonsilla in Dublin admitted hitting her mother on the head with a bottle in 2010 but insisted she did not mean to kill her.

She was tried last year but the jury could not agree on a verdict.

The 36-year-old Lithuanian nurse displayed no emotion today as the jury found her guilty of murdering her mother in an 11-to-1 majority decision.

Greta Dudko had admitted manslaughter but she denied that she had intended to kill her mother Anna Butautiene during the row at their Dublin home on Christmas Eve 2010.

The evidence was that Greta Dudko threw her mother against a wall until she slumped to the ground at which point she got a bottle from the kitchen and struck the 55-year-old over the head with it twice.

There were family tensions about Greta Dudko's marriage and she had increasingly turned to alcohol and prescription drugs.

The court heard her brother Tomas attended the trial last week but there was no family here today. No victim impact evidence was heard before Mr Justice Paul Carney imposed the mandatory life sentence.