Locals remember murder victim was ‘good father’

MICHAEL “Danser” Ahern was an infrequent visitors to his family home on the Northside of Cork city.

But among local people memories of the 38-year-old were seemingly untainted by his shady background. In some cases, there was a tone of regret as people thought of his violent death.

His former partner, Eileen O'Donovan, with whom he had two teenage boys, Daniel and Stephen, was not at her home on Dunmanus Park in Knocknaheeny yesterday. It was left to others in the locality to stress that she was "a lovely woman" and that Danser was himself "a good father."