Wexford’s litany of sadness tells depressing tale

EIGHT years after Stephen Byrne drove the car containing his two sons and himself off Duncannon pier, three years after Sharon Grace drowned herself and her two daughters on a lonely stretch of Wexford coastline, and one year after the Dunne family were found dead in their house in Monageer, last weekend’s events in Clonroche have once again stunned the south-east.

These tragedies all had the common dark theme of a parent killing their own children.

Attention is once again focused on Wexford, and there’s no doubt that the county has suffered more than its share of murder-suicides in recent years.