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Sunday night
Ann O’Sullivan (60) and her son Mark (26) return home after staying with neighbors in Castlemagner for a couple of days after Ms O’Sullivan was discharged from the hospital in Dublin following surgery for a serious medical condition.
Monday
6.40 am: Mark O’Sullivan is shot and killed in his room in the family home in Assolas between Castlemagner and Kanturk. Ann O’Sullivan flees the house and runs across the fields to a neighbor’s house to raise the alarm.
7 am: Gardai receives a call to 999 that a man has been shot and may be dead and possibly up to two gunmen barricade themselves at the O’Sullivan family home in a situation similar to a siege. Garda Press issues a statement requesting a media blackout regarding the incident.
7.25 am: Uniformed and plainclothes officers arrive at the entrance to the O’Sullivan family home and speak to a neighbor who informs them that he heard two shots some time earlier.
7.30 am: Gardaí declares the matter a critical firearms incident and establishes an interior cordon 100 meters from the house and an exterior cordon of more than 1 km on all access roads to the lodge. A commander is appointed in place of the Cork City division. A trained negotiator begins trying to make contact with anyone in the house and continues through the morning without success.
8.15 am: Armed members of the Cork City Emergency Response Unit (ERU) arrive on the scene and stand on the inner cordon while the trained negotiator continues his efforts to contact anyone in the home.
9 am: A team of HSE paramedics trained to treat gunshot wounds and equipped with ballistic protective equipment, including bulletproof vests and helmets, are airlifted to near the scene by the Irish Coast Guard helicopter, Dublin Rescue 116, which lands at Castlemagner GAA. tone.
The team is transported by minibus to the inner Garda cordon, where it takes positions with the armed members of the ERU who maintain their position about 100 meters from the property.
The paramedics are joined by consultants in emergency medicine, Dr. Jason Van Der Velde and Dr. Adrian Murphy, who traveled from Cork and are on standby in the event of a critical medical emergency.
Noon: Members of the Armed Support Unit (ASU) arrive from Dublin aboard an Air Corps helicopter and are taken to the inner cordon where they take up their positions with the local ERU and begin discussions with the commander on site.
13:00 h: After the negotiator does not commit to anyone in the house, the decision is made to enter the lodge with the ASU taking the lead, followed by the ERU with the trained paramedics who follow him once the house is declared safe to enter.
Members of the ASU enter the farm with the support of the ERU and discover the body of Mark O’Sullivan in a bedroom. He has suffered at least one gunshot wound and is pronounced dead by members of the medical team. No one else is in the house.
Members of the ASU and ERU begin a search of the adjacent sheds and outbuildings before moving on to a broader search of the fields immediately adjacent to the lodge.
13:40 h: The Garda Air Support helicopter, which had come from Dublin, begins an aerial sweep of the farm and equipped with infrared heat search equipment locates the bodies of two men near a fairy fort about four fields from the house.
Members of the ASU and ERU approach the scene and members of the medical team declare Tadgh (59) and Diarmuid O’Sullivan (23) dead. Two rifles are found alongside them in the field and the critical firearms incident is removed.
14:00 h: Gardaí begins a criminal investigation and requests the services of the State Pathologist’s Office and the expertise of the Garda Technical Office in Dublin, in particular experts from the ballistics section. Gardaí declares the country house and the field as separate crime scenes
3.30 pm: The Garda Press Office issues a statement lifting the media blackout and confirming the discovery of the bodies of three men, the withdrawal of the critical firearms incident and the opening of a criminal investigation.
5.30 pm: Dr. Margot Bolster, Assistant State Pathologist, arrives on site and conducts a preliminary examination of the body of Mark O’Sullivan at the farm and a preliminary examination of the bodies of Tadhg and Diarmuid O’Sullivan in the field.
21:00 h: The bodies of the three deceased are removed from the scene and taken to Cork University Hospital, where Dr. Bolster was to begin autopsies at 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday
The scene in Assolas remains isolated as Garda technical experts, including Garda ballistics experts, survey the farm and field.
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