The jury in a murder trial has heard that the last words a Cavan man said to his wife before shooting her were “the children will come home and bring you back to Australia”.

A murder trial has heard that the cause of death of Patricia Kierans, a mother of four, was a shotgun injury to the chest.

The jury in the trial of a Cavan man accused of murdering his wife has heard that the accused said a prayer moments after the mother of their four children was shot at the family home.

A murder trial has heard that the body of a Cavan woman Patricia Kierans was found by gardai lying on the floor of a bedroom next to a cot at her family home.

A barman has told a murder trial that the accused man aimed a sawn-off shotgun at a garda the same day his wife went missing.

A jury has been told a man carried out a “siege” at a local pub the day he allegedly shot his wife.

About €8,000 has been raised for the children of murdered Cavan mum Patricia Kierans to finance their return to Australia.

Shop doors remained closed and window blinds drawn in the Cavan town of Bailieborough as hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of mother of four Patricia Kierans, who was found murdered in her Drumbannon home.

A man is due to appear before Harristown District Court this morning after he was charged earlier this week with the murder of Patricia Kierans.

The estranged husband of Bailieborough mother of four Patricia Kierans was last night charged with her murder at a special sitting of Cavan District Court.

The husband of Patricia Kierans has been charged with her murder.

A man arrested for the murder of his ex-wife after a near eight-hour stand-off with gardai remains under armed guard in hospital.

The man suspected of murdering mother Patricia Kierans shot her shortly after she arrived home, before going on a drinking binge leading to an eight-hour siege in Bailieborough, Co Cavan.

Patricia Kierans’ son, Shane, had just disembarked from a plane to London, the first stopover on his long journey to Australia, when the crushing news came that his mother had been found dead in the family home in Co Cavan.

Gardaí are to due launch a murder investigation, following the discovery of a 54-year-old woman's body in Co Cavan.