Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has confirmed he will meet the family of Clodagh Hawe next week to listen to their concerns.

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We need to ask ourselves if we truly believe mental illness was the reason Alan Hawe brutally murdered his own family, writes Paul Gilligan.

The effort in some media quarters to explain Alan Hawe’s familicide as an expression of abusive masculinity is beyond stupid, writes Victoria White. 

Alan Hawe, who killed his wife and three children at their family home in Co Cavan in 2016, was troubled, depressed, and severely mentally ill in the months before the murder-suicide, an inquest was told.

“I knew something terrible had happened,” the mother of a woman who was killed in her home with her three sons told an inquest yesterday.

The remains of Alan Hawe, who murdered his wife and children before taking his own life last summer, were exhumed yesterday from the grave he shared with his victims in Cavan.

The body of a father of three who murdered his wife and sons before killing himself has been exhumed from the family grave.

“It breaks our hearts to lose you all, you didn’t go alone, for part of us went with you all, the day God called you home.”

The loss of five members of the same family in a murder-suicide is tragedy beyond comprehension, funeral mourners heard yesterday.

Clodagh Hawe's sister Jacqueline turned to poetry to convey the heartache and deep sense of loss that has engulfed two families and a rural Irish community.

The loss of five members of the same family in a suspected murder-suicide is tragedy beyond comprehension, funeral mourners have been told.

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

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.

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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.

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