A dark day

IN one of the most heartbreaking days in recent Irish history, seven people — including four children under the age of six — died tragically at their homes in East Cork and Limerick.

In the village of Ballycotton and town of Newcastle West, locals were trying in vain to come to terms with the idea of such bloodshed on their doorsteps.

One of the victims, Amy, was just five-months-old when she was stabbed to death in her Newcastle West home along with her three-year-old brother Reece.