article_snippet.sent: Earlier, video footage of a pre-recorded police interview with O'Riordan was played to the court, in which O'Riordan described O'Riordan husband as 'passionate and vocally volatile' but said her husband had never 'laid a finger on O'Riordan before.'
article_snippet.sent: O'Riordan said O'Riordan thought her husband might have suffered from 'mild depression' because her husband could be 'up one minute and down the next'.
article_snippet.sent: During later questioning by O'Riordan's defence counsel Peter Doyle QC, O'Riordan said O'Riordan and her husband were 'soulmates'.
article_snippet.sent: But O'Riordan said that last year O'Riordan felt 'smothered' by her husband and wanted 'more me time.'
article_snippet.sent: This was the 'trigger' for O'Riordan brief affair with postman Nicholas Gunn, who has since moved away from the area. '
article_snippet.sent: O'Riordan found out about her brief affair with postman Nicholas Gunn, who has since moved away from the area after hiring a private detective to follow O'Riordan.
article_snippet.sent: The jury heard that a row had developed between the pair on October 22 while they were visiting O'Riordan mother after O'Riordan received a phone call, believed to be from Mr Gunn.
article_snippet.sent: O'Riordan said they then went to a KFC restaurant and in the car on the way home her husband became angry and O'Riordan tried to get out, but was 'dragged' back and held down.
article_snippet.sent: Once they were home, O'Riordan said O'Riordan husband came into they bedroom brandishing a kitchen knife as her husband cried: '
article_snippet.sent: O'Riordan also said that just days before the assault her husband had talked of 'finishing O'Riordan off