Sharon Collins, the woman otherwise known as Lying Eyes due to her role in one of Ireland's most high-profile attempted murder cases, launches her fight to clear her name before the Court of Criminal Appeal this week.

Collins' case has been pencilled in to last two days from this Thursday and is expected to include lengthy submissions from her legal team on a significant number of points of law.

A separate appeal by her co-accused, Egyptian poker dealer Essam Eid, is also due to be heard on the same day.

Collins, of Kildysart Road, Ennis, Co Clare, was found guilty in July 2008 of soliciting Eid to kill her partner PJ Howard and his sons Robert and Niall Howard in 2006. She was also found guilty on three counts of conspiring to kill the three men following a much publicised seven-week trial.

Eid was found guilty of demanding €100,000 from Robert Howard on 26 September 2006, and of handling items stolen from the Howard family business.

Collins, who was accused of using the cyber name lyingeyes98 to hire a hitman on the internet, and Eid, were both jailed for six years by Mr Justice Roderick Murphy at the Central Criminal Court.

The prosecution had argued that Collins had started looking for a hitman on the internet after Howard refused to marry her.

Prior to this, she obtained a Mexican marriage certificate from a website called proxymarriages.com which she used to obtain an Irish passport in the name Sharon Howard.

A significant part of the prosecution's case against both Collins and Eid was made up of e-mails found on the hard drives of computers seized from the homes of both Collins and Eid.

However, in a victim impact statement to the court in advance of sentencing, PJ Howard asked the judge not to send Sharon Collins to jail. He also told the court he would never give up on her.

But the prosecution said Sharon Collins was motivated by money and was trying to inherit Howard's estimated €60m fortune which was set to go to his sons.