‘All answers are within the house’ in Cavan horror

A family wiped out, a community laid waste by grief, a house within whose walls lies the answer to what motivated the killer in an horrific murder-suicide that claimed the lives of five.

Gardaí believe “all the answers are within that house” in the quiet Oakdene Estate, Barconey, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan, where teachers Alan and Clodagh Hawe were found dead yesterday, along with their three young sons, Liam, 13, Niall, 11, and Ryan, 6.

Two schools were reeling in the aftermath of the tragedy — Castlerahan National School, where Mr Hawe was deputy principal and a teacher of first class, and Oristown National School, in Kells, Co Meath, where Mrs Hawe had taught.