Gory details of gruesome crime recalled

THE awful and gory details of one of the most gruesome murders ever committed in this country were revisited this week when the mother of the so-called Scissor Sisters was finally brought to court for her part in the monstrous crime.

It began as a drinking session on Dublin city’s boardwalk in March 2005 and ended in a blood-drenched frenzy of violence later that day.

Kathleen Mulhall, a 53-year-old working class mother-of-six, was no stranger to drink and drugs-related violence, but what happened in her Richmond Cottages, Ballybough home was off the scale of any brutality she might have experienced in her lifetime.