Society must stop attributing familicide to mental health factors alone and recognise it as unacceptable child murder, writes Paul Gilligan

As Clodagh Hawe’s family prepare to bury her along with her children and her husband who killed them all earlier this week, Women’s Aid has revealed how common it is for men to threaten to kill their partners and their children during domestic violence incidents.

There has been an outpouring of support for Clodagh Hawe, 39, who was killed by her husband, Alan Hawe, 40, in the Cavan murder-suicide last Monday.

A suspected murder-suicide note left by Alan Hawe “could contain nothing or could contain everything”, garda sources have said writes Cormac O'Keefe.

The five family members who died in Monday’s murder-suicide will be laid out together tomorrow afternoon before being buried together on Saturday.

A suspected murder-suicide note left by Alan Hawe “could contain nothing or could contain everything”, garda sources have said.

Latest: Funeral arrangements for the Hawe Family have been announced.

Gardaí are investigating a possible confession note left by Alan Hawe, 40, at the scene of the Cavan murder-suicide.

Bishop of Kilmore Leo O’Reilly says the community of Castlerahan will unite and support one another in the aftermath of Monday’s murder-suicide.

Alan Hawe, 40, was a conscientious and obliging man, who was at the heart of his community, a friend and neighbour has said.

The community in County Cavan is today struggling to come to terms with the death of the Hawe family in an apparent murder-suicide.

Post mortems will be carried out today on the bodies of five members of the same family who were found dead after a murder suicide in Co Cavan yesterday.

A family wiped out, a community laid waste by grief, a house within whose walls lies the answer to what motivated the killer in an horrific murder-suicide that claimed the lives of five.

Gardaí are treating the death of a family of five at a house in Co Cavan as a murder- suicide.