‘People lost, helpless and frightened’

THE parish priest of Cloughbawn yesterday said people were left lost, helpless and frightened by last weekend’s murder-suicide of a young local family.

Fr Richard Hayes told the funeral Mass for Diarmuid Flood, 41, his wife Lorraine, 38, and their two children Mark, 6, and Julie, 5, that the community felt angry and wanted to blame somebody.

However, he asked the 300 family members inside St Clement’s church and the hundreds more friends outside to understand what had happened was not the will of God.