Mental illness ‘one battle we couldn’t win’, couple’s funeral told

The funeral Mass for Jim and Marie Quigley, believed to have died as a result of a murder suicide, heard Mr Quigley had been supported through his battle with a mental illness by his family but this was “one battle we could not win”.

Gardaí suspect Mr Quigley killed his wife at their home near Hackballscross, Co Louth, before driving his car in front of a lorry on the M1 motorway a short time later. They were found within hours of each other last Monday.

On Saturday, more than 1,000 mourners filled St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church in Dundalk to pay their last respects to the couple who came from well-respected and popular families.