Accused recounts last words to late wife

The jury in a murder trial has heard that the last words a Cavan man said to his wife before shooting her were “the children will come home and bring you back to Australia”.

Oliver Kierans, aged 57, of Drumbannon, Bailieboro, in Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans on September 5, 2013, at the same address.

He also pleaded not guilty to unlawful possession of a 12 gauge double-barrel shotgun and not guilty to intent to endanger life with the same shotgun.