No explanation, killer’s family told at funeral

Mourners at the funeral of a man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend last Friday before taking his own life were told there will never be an explanation for what he did to the two families.

Robert Hartery, 45, was buried yesterday in his native Grangemockler, Co Tipperary, shortly before his former partner Sarah Regan, 30, was laid to rest in Co Roscommon.

Robert’s sister Anne-Marie said she and her family were sorry for what he did on Friday night in Cloonfad in Co Roscommon, but that they forgave Robert. She said there were questions that will never be answered. “Why, oh why, we’ll never know,” she said.