IT is of small comfort to Christine O’Sullivan that the tragic end to the parental abduction case she was embroiled in was exceptional, Justice Minister Michael McDowell told a conference yesterday.

THE woman who helped kidnap her daughter was jailed yesterday, but Christine O’Sullivan said the case is not closed.

TWO distraught families will gather separately today to remember a father and daughter who died tragically in a double shooting one year ago.

The funeral of Christopher Crowley, the maths teacher who last week shot his six-year-old daughter before turning his gun on himself, was held in Cork today.

Gardai spoke to Chris Crowley before he was later found dead with his six-year-old daughter Deirdre at a house outside Clonmel yesterday afternoon.

A man who shot his young daughter then turned his gun on himself as gardai arrived at their rented cottage in Co Tipperary had been on the run with the child for two years after abducting her, it emerged today.