The mother of two boys murdered by their father says she wants convicted killers to wait longer for parole.

Kathleen Chada, the mother of two boys killed by their father, is calling for the implementation of the Parole Bill which would change the length of time at which a prisoner serving a life sentence can appeal for parole from seven years to 12 years.

The Government is to sign off on an independent specialist research study on familicide today.

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

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

“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.

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“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.”

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.

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.

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

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.