Neighbours mourn ‘nicest man in village’

WORSHIPPERS at Sunday Masses in Croom, Co Limerick, were yesterday asked to co-operate with gardaí to help track down the killer of a man admired in the village by young and old alike.

Neighbours mourn ‘nicest  man in village’

People wept openly in church as prayers were offered for Liam O’Donovan, a 59-year-old bachelor who was murdered early Saturday morning, shortly after he had returned home from an engagement party in a local pub which he had gone to with his brother, Vincent.

It is believed he received one fatal stab wound to the chest and his body was left under a lorry owned by a neighbour.

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