Cobh deaths: Daughter’s anti-suicide plea

The teenage daughter of a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide wrote a poignant message on her Facebook page earlier this year urging people not to consider taking their own lives.

Sarah Greaney, the 16-year-old daughter of Michael, 53, and Valerie Greaney, 49, who were found stabbed to death in the family home in Cobh on Sunday, wrote online that “suicide should never be an option” and “you can always get help anywhere”.

“People walk around this town looking like the happiest person ever, when really you can’t imagine how depressed they are,” she wrote in May. “I seriously have no problem talking to anyone if they’re feeling the worst, so don’t feel you can’t talk to me, and I know this sounds so cheesy but stay strong.”