The mother of one of the women murdered by John Geary has appealed to people trying to escape a controlling relationship to be wary of the danger they could be in.

A man has been given four concurrent life sentences for murdering two women and two children.

An Englishman who had planned to start a new life with Sarah Hines days before she and her two children and a friend were murdered has told how their relationship had been a fairytale romance.

Alicia Brough’s mother, Maria Dempsey, received her daughter’s ashes on her 21st birthday.

Alicia Brough’s mother, Maria Dempsey, received her daughter’s ashes on her 21st birthday.

John Geary left his rented house on the morning of Nov 15, 2010, with one intention — to murder Sarah Hines.

The mother of murdered woman Alicia Brough has today described an apology from her daughter’s killer as "painful to listen to".

A Limerick man has been jailed for life for murdering four people including his ex-partner and their five-month-old baby daughter in attacks of exceptional violence.

A Limerick man has pleaded guilty to murdering four people including his ex-partner and their five month old baby daughter Amy.

THE mother of two little girls who died at the hands of their mentally-ill father has expressed her deep gratitude to those who supported her in the year since their tragic deaths.

A MAN charged with the murders of two women and two young children in Co Limerick last year has been sent forward for trial.

THE state has strongly indicated that a book of evidence is ready to be served on a man accused of four murders in Co Limerick last November.

THE garda investigation into the deaths of a woman, her two children and a family friend in Newcastle West has been completed.

STUMBLING blocks have been encountered in the huge investigation into the murders of a mother, her two children and a family friend in Newcastle West, a court heard yesterday.

THE distraught mother of a young woman, who along with her two children and a friend were stabbed to death in a house in Newcastle West, yesterday confronted the man charged with their murder.

THE man charged with the murders of a young mother, her two children and a family friend has been moved to the Central Criminal Hospital, it emerged yesterday.

A man charged with murdering four people in Newcastle West on November 15 did not appear in court this afternoon as he was receiving treatment at the Central Mental Hospital.

MORE than 300 people crowded into the small parish church in Tournafulla in a poignant tribute to stabbing victims Sarah Hines, 25, and her children Reece, 3, and Amy, five months.

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral mass of Sarah Hines and her two children in Co Limerick.

The funeral is to take place today of Sarah Hines and her two young children who were murdered in Limerick last week.

THE bodies of Sarah Hines, 25, and her children Reece and Amy were brought to a west Limerick church last night in a single oak coffin.

ONE of her little brothers came forward with a Cork football jersey; another with a Harry Potter book — representing just some of the passions of Alicia Brough, a young woman who loved life.

The young Cork woman who was killed in Newcastle West in Limerick last week will be laid to rest later today.

THE first funeral of one of the victims of last week’s quadruple stabbing murder in Limerick will take place today.

A 31-year-old man has been charged with the murders of two women and two children in Newcastle West, Co Limerick.

A MAN aged 31 was last night charged with the murders of two women and two children at Newcastle West, Co Limerick, last Monday.

AS darkness last night enveloped the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Newcastle West, candles flickered in a symbolic embrace of two communities in Limerick and Cork devastated by grief.

THE stepfather of Newcastle West murder victim, Sarah Hines, has spoken of his horrific ordeal when he went to identify her body and those of her children, Reece, 3, and Amy, 5 months, at the morgue in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

The family of a young woman murdered along with a young mother and her two toddlers was tonight described as a kind and caring soul.

A large crowd of people has attended a prayer meeting in the town of Newcastle West in Limerick in memory of the four people murdered there last Tuesday.

Post mortems have been completed on the bodies of two women and two small children found dead in a Limerick house on Tuesday.

A grief-stricken community will gather in Limerick today to remember a loving mother who was murdered with her two young children and a friend.

A 43-YEAR-OLD Corkman suffocated one daughter and strangled the other before deliberately killing himself in a horrific crash.

THE family of Sarah Hines, stabbed to death with her two young children and one of her closest friends, spoke yesterday of their worst nightmare.

JUST three weeks ago, Alicia Brough celebrated her 21st birthday at Paddy Molly’s bar in Rockchapel in north Cork.

IN a poignant scene, a single coffin was used to remove the bodies of Sarah Hines and her two children, Amy and Reece, from the murder scene at Hazel Grove estate yesterday afternoon.

A grief-stricken community will gather tomorrow to remember a loving mother who was murdered with her two young children and a friend.

Relatives of murdered Limerick mother of two, Sarah Hines, have said their lives "will never be the same" because of her murder and the murder of her two children.

A man arrested in connection with the murders of four people in Co Limerick yesterday, has been taken to hospital in Cork for surgery.

Leading forensics experts will today begin examining the inside of a house where two children, their mother and her friend were murdered.

ONE of the worst multiple murders in the history of the state yesterday claimed the lives of a mother, her two young children and a friend.

“THERE was a little fellow of five, a smaller fellow. They have been here about two months. We’d say hello passing. They seemed to be a quiet family. He was from around Milford and she was from Tournafulla.

IN one of the most heartbreaking days in recent Irish history, seven people — including four children under the age of six — died tragically at their homes in East Cork and Limerick.