3 jailed for life over ‘brutal’ murder

The family of a 64-year-old who was murdered by three men after they broke into his home in Edenderry has spoken for the first time of their shock and horror at the brutality of his death.

A sentencing hearing at the Central Criminal Court for the three men convicted of murdering Thomas ‘Toddy’ Dooley, heard the family statement yesterday.

The dead man’s four sisters, Catherine Darby, Cora McAuley, Ann Finnegan, and Rose Murphy, niece Denise Murphy and nephews John and William Murphy said they were “horrified and shocked at the cruel and heartless way he was brutally taken from us and his family never got the chance to say goodbye”.