‘Una will need our support for many years’

“UNA and her family will need the support of the people, not just for this week, this month or this year, but for many years to come. It is such an unbelievable tragedy they will probably never recover from it.”

Those were the words of a local man walking down the main street in the seaside village of Ballycotton in Co Cork yesterday as people grieved for Una Butler who had lost her two children and husband in almost unbelievable circumstances.

Villagers tried to put some normality back into their lives, but couldn’t hide the devastation after John Butler killed his daughters, Ella, aged two, and Zoe, aged six, on Tuesday, and then took his own life by deliberately crashing his car.