Family left devastated after man’s murder

A GRIEF-STRICKEN family is today trying to come to terms with the murder of a much-loved son in broad daylight.

“I want my brother back,” were the devastated words of a sister of Derek McDonagh, who was stabbed outside his parents’ home in Tullamore yesterday.

Up to a hundred members of the extended McDonagh family gathered around the Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore yesterday in the hours following the horrific death of the father-of-one at Arden View, resulting in a disruption of services there for a time.