‘Words fail to imagine the horror for family’

A coroner told members of a family yesterday that words really fail to imagine the horror they have been through since the murder of Eoin Ryan nearly five years ago.

Clare coroner Isobel O’Dea was speaking at the inquest in Ennis into the brutal murder of the 21-year-old law student, where a jury re-affirmed murder as the cause of death of the Ennis man.

In June 2013, Joseph Heffernan, aged 35, from Barefield, outside Ennis, was found guilty of Mr Ryan’s murder at Heffernan’s home at Cappaghbeg, Barefield, on June 7, 2011, by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.