The removals of the victims of a double shooting at the weekend will take place this evening.

STUNNED locals were stuck for words and few could comprehend how or why a bitter, protracted dispute over land could spark a murder and a suicide in the close-knit community of Coolyhune on the Carlow/Kilkenny border.

A KILLING, a garda siege, the besieged killer taking his own life — the sequence of events whose final tragic outcome was the pointless waste of two lives is a not unfamiliar drama.

It has emerged today that the man who shot dead a neighbour in Co Carlow yesterday, and then killed himself, was taking a civil case against the victim over a land dispute.

A man in his 30s has been fatally injured following a shooting in Co Kilkenny today.