Father told son ‘don’t come back for funeral’

The son of a Cavan woman shot by her husband told a murder trial jury that his father said “I don’t want you to come home for my funeral” days before his mother was found dead in the family home.

Oliver Kierans, aged 57, of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan has pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans, aged 54, 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 possession of the same shotgun with intent to endanger life.