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A heartbroken mother who lost her entire family in an alleged murder-double suicide today attended the funeral of her husband and youngest son, who are feared to have killed her eldest son.
nne O’Sullivan (60) was supported by family members, one of whom kept an arm gently wrapped around her shoulder, as she entered St Mary’s Church in Castlemagner for the Requiem Mass for her husband, Tadg O’Sullivan ( 59), and his youngest son, Diarmuid (23).
Tadg and his two sons Mark O’Sullivan (25) and Diarmuid O’Sullivan (23) were killed in a triple shooting tragedy on the outskirts of Kanturk, Co Cork, early Monday morning after a growing dispute over a family will and a 115 acre farm estate. around 2 million euros.
Tadg and Diarmuid are believed to have confronted Mark in his room Monday morning and shot him before they apparently took their own lives in a field 600 meters away.
Anne, a mother of two and a nurse who has been battling serious health problems, mourned the heartbreaking loss of her entire family.
Dressed completely in black, Anne arrived at St Mary’s with close family and friends.
The mourners were told that the tragedy had thrown a black cloud of pain like the darkest hour of Creation over an entire farming community.
The first of two separate funerals took place today, with Tadg and his youngest son, Diarmuid, having their Requiem Mass at St Mary’s Church in Castlemagner.
Mark’s Requiem Mass will be held separately in Kanturk on Saturday.
The pastor of Kanturk parish, Canon Toby Bluitt, told mourners that both Tadg and Diarmuid touched the lives of many people locally.
“Their lives and deaths have changed them all and they will never be the same again. So today, gathered in our grief, we do not minimize the loss of their lives by trying to give them easy answers. Because there are no answers.”
He said the entire North Cork community was stunned by the tragedy.
“Pain is never an easy burden to bear, and never again when it comes to us in a way that can only be described as untimely, shocking and tragic,” he said.
“We meet in such pain today, carrying a burden that not only appears to be, but is actually overwhelming.”
‘We come together to comfort and support each other in our common loss. We come together to make sense of nonsense. “
“Today’s Gospel of Luke, which describes the Passion of Christ, speaks of a darkness that hangs over the whole world; in fact, it seemed that that same darkness, the darkest hour of creation, enveloped the O ‘family Sullivan and the local community here in Castlemagner over the last few days. “
“The shock, the numbness, the devastation was impossible to imagine and the news of the loss of three lives was incomprehensible.”
“Like all of you, I too am struggling to make sense of this life-changing tragedy.”
“Tadg O ‘Sullivan worked in the automotive industry locally for over 40 years. From my own encounters with him, I have always found him very accommodating, friendly and happy in his chosen field.”
Diarmuid attended school in Ballyhass and Kanturk like his older brother Mark and also socialized at Castlemagner.
“He continued his studies in Accounting at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). He finished his studies last June and was due to have his conference online next week. CIT paid tribute to him and underscored the impact he felt in the CIT community by the tragedy . “
“One could imagine that life was full of possibilities for him.”
The strict Covid-19 level 5 controls were met at St Mary’s with only a small group of family and friends attending the Requiem mass.
However, out of respect, the local people lined the funeral route as. the procession traveled to St Brigid’s Cemetery in Castlemagner.
The family had asked people not to send flowers, but to consider making a donation to the Cliona Ring Foundation.
After the requiem mass, Tadg and Diarmuid were taken in separate hearses to St Brigid’s, where they were buried together.
Mark’s funeral, which is private and for family members only, will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Saturday.
Her family has requested donations, in lieu of flowers, to the Jack and Jill Foundation.
Mark’s Requiem Mass will be streamed live at 3.30pm on the Kanturk Parish website.
Counseling and support services are available to people in the community who were traumatized by the triple tragedy.
Gardaí is awaiting the results of the ballistics and forensic tests that they hope will help them reconstruct the precise sequence of events that led to the triple tragedy.
Up to seven shots were fired in Mark’s room in what Gardaí believes was a carefully premeditated attack.
The young law graduate had injuries to his hands, indicating that he had fought for his life and desperately tried to protect himself.
After Mark’s shooting, Tadg and Diarmuid went to a field called ‘The Fort’ about 600 meters from the farm where they are suspected of taking their own lives.
Two rifles, 22 caliber hunting weapons, were found next to their bodies, which were two meters apart.
A detailed personal note was found on Diarmuid’s body describing his distress over the inheritance dispute and the resulting family division.
The note was left for her mother’s attention.
The long note found by Diarmuid’s body is believed to have been written several hours before the triple shooting, indicating that the attack was entirely premeditated.
Items in the note, which is a dozen pages long, were described as “very disturbing” by one source.
The family feud escalated when details emerged two weeks ago of a proposed will favoring Mark with the farm inheritance.
However, the disagreement over the farm’s inheritance dates back almost eight months with legal correspondence regarding the dispute discovered at the farm.
Diarmuid was deeply upset by the proposed terms of the will.
Apparently, Tadg was very upset about the treatment of his youngest son and that he had not reached a compromise on the inheritance.
While Gardaí is treating the matter as a criminal investigation, they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
A file will be prepared for the North Cork Coroner with an investigation to be conducted next year.
Both Tadg and Diarmuid died of a single gunshot wounds to the head at point-blank range.
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