An unsettling light shone into couple’s life

A RARE but unsettling light into the private world of a couple’s relationship was shone yesterday as a jury in a murder trial was given an anatomy of the marriage of Brian and Siobhan Kearney.

From the initial mutual attraction between the pair through the ups and downs of a typical relationship to the pain of a marriage breakdown, few intimate details were left unexposed in the emotionless, stuffy setting of the Central Criminal Court.

Evidence about the couple’s troubled relationship especially in the weeks before Siobhan’s death in February 2006 dominated the third day of the trial of Brian Kearney who is accused of his wife’s murder. The accused was joined by his elderly parents, Feargal and Maeve, for the first time in court.