Family marks mother’s murder a year on
Siobhán Kearney, 37, was found dead on March 2 last year at her home in Knocknashee, Goatstown. Afterwards her family brought her home to her native parish and the Church of the Assumption in Dalkey.
It is here that her parents, sisters, brother and four-year-old son Dan will return tonight and remember her 12 months on.
Her sister Aisling McLaughlin said the family has made painstaking preparations for tonight’s service so it will be appropriate to Siobhán’s memory.
“It is an extremely emotional time for this family. We have spent the whole year with this sadness and sense of loss.
“These are the last things we are able to do to remember Siobhán properly, so we are being very careful about organising the right hymns and making sure everything reflects the peaceful and caring person that Siobhán was,” she said.
The mother-of-one, who was a successful hotelier, was found dead last year.
She had been strangled with the flex of a vacuum cleaner and locked in her room.
Arrests have been made but no-one has ever been charged.
Ms McLaughlin said it would bring great peace to the family if anybody with information came forward.
“Our grief is a different grief. It is a suspended grief. There is so much emotion but we are unable to find our own peace until we can see justice for Siobhán,” Ms McLaughlin said.
“It is never too late for people to come forward. If somebody does know something, I think it would really help them to say it.
“It is a huge thing and I can only imagine the difficulty it would be for somebody who does want to come forward with information to do so, but it would be so important.
Yesterday, gardaí at Blackrock said they have carried out extensive investigative work and have submitted a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
A garda spokesman said it was unable to act further until the DPP had made a direction.
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