Andrew McGinley calls for his children's inquest to examine their mother's mental illness treatment

Andrew McGinley at the Dublin District Coroner's Court this afternoon. The inquest heard that Mr McGinley believed there was a link between the medical treatment received by his wife and his children’s deaths. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The father of three children who were killed by their mother at their family home in south Dublin three years ago has called for the scope of the inquest into their deaths to be widened to examine the diagnosis and treatment of his wife’s mental illness before the killings.

Lawyers for Andrew McGinley have asked the coroner overseeing the inquest to look into the medical care of his wife, Deirdre Morley, for the two years preceding the death of their children. However, the application has been challenged by the legal representative of a consultant psychiatrist, Olivia Gibbons, who had treated Ms Morley six months earlier.