Affair was mid-life crisis, says Lillis

MURDER accused Eamonn Lillis told gardaí how his affair with a beauty therapist – which began just 10 weeks before his wife died – was part of “a mid-life crisis”, the jury at his trial heard yesterday.

Affair was mid-life crisis, says Lillis

Lillis, 52, denies the charge of killing his 46-year-old wife Celine Cawley at their family home at Rowan Hill on Windgate Road in Howth on December 15, 2008.

The trial at the Central Criminal Court heard details of an interview conducted by gardaí with Lillis in Clontarf Garda Station after he had been arrested in connection with his wife’s death.

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