A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Molly Corbett and her father, Thomas Martens, as they face trial on murder charges in the death of Jason Corbett.

Irishman Jason Corbett was killed by his wife and her father. Today at 2.30pm Irish time, a court in North Carolina will begin hearing evidence to establish if it was murder or self defence, writes Joe Leogue.

The sister of an Irishman who died after being hit with a baseball bat in the US has pleaded with his second wife to stop her social media campaign to speak with his orphaned children.

A sister of an Irishman who died after an attack in the US has spoken publically of her loss for the first time since the incident, saying his death would leave footprints across their lives forever.

The stepmother of Jack and Sarah Corbett, who were brought home to Ireland after their father’s violent death in the US, has stepped up her social media campaign to speak to the children.

The stepmother of Sarah Corbett has posted a heart-wrenching birthday post as the girl turns nine today.

The second wife of the Co Limerick man Jason Corbett — was one of only two people questioned so far about his violent death — has taken to Facebook to try and win back her stepchildren.

As the funeral of Jason Corbett, who died in a violent domestic incident at his home in the US, took place yesterday, it emerged he had planned to make a surprise visit home to Limerick on that very day with his two children to attend the 80th birthday of his father, John Corbett.

The children at the centre of an American court custody battle prayed by their father’s body as it lay in repose yesterday in Limerick.

Family and friends are continuing to comfort Jason Corbett’s two children as the removal of his remains takes place in Limerick this evening.

Limerick man Jason Corbett is to be laid to rest on Wednesday alongside his “soulmate” and mother of his two children, who were at the centre of a bitter custody battle in the US.

Amid conflicting reports about their whereabouts, the two Limerick children at the centre of a bitter custody battle in North Carolina were last night believed to have been on their way to Ireland.

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“The kids are coming home” — Marian Fitzpatrick sang out the message the country had waited for, shortly after she got word from North Carolina that her grandchildren, Jack, 10, and Sarah, 8, were to be brought back to Ireland following a tortuous custody battle.

The Limerick grandmother of the two Corbett children who are finally in the care of their aunt and uncle last night told how her granddaughter had told her on the phone “she was happy as Larry, and she loves me”.

THE custody battle over two children whose Irish father, Jason Corbett, died in an incident at his US home is a heartbreaking and distressing state of affairs that every family would dread. 

The maternal grandmother of Jack and Sarah Corbett said their Irish parents would have wanted their children to be in Ireland with their family.

The father-in-law of a Limerick man who suffered a brutal death in the US has been interviewed by police as part of the investigation.

The coffin bearing the remains of Limerick man, Jason Corbett, who died violently at his home in North Carolina, is due to arrive at Dublin airport at 9.30am this morning.

The sister of a Limerick man found dead at his home in America last weekend has said she will not return to Ireland without her brother and his two children.

A mother who lost her son after an unprovoked attack is leading a fundraising drive to help the family of a Limerick man who died in the US as a result of a violent incident.