‘We are heartbroken but at least we got justice’

“THERE’S no joy anymore. There never will be without Siobhán.”

With a simple stark statement, Brighid McLaughlin forcefully reminded people how the loss of a loved one through an act of murder leaves an unbridgeable void in the lives of the victim’s family.

Not even the wheels of justice which had delivered a guilty verdict on Brian Kearney could adequately compensate the McLaughlins for the absence of a sister whom she described as “the light of our lives”.