‘Rose was an only child and her children were her life’

SHE lived for her kids — her kids were her life.

‘Rose was an only child and her children were her life’

That was how shocked friends of Rosarie (Rose) Patterson yesterday remembered the 30-year-old mother-of-three who was brutally stabbed to death in West Cork on Thursday.

“She loved her kids, she adored them. She was an only child and so always wanted a family,” said close family friend and neighbour, Karen McCarthy.

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