Brother of murdered Cork woman welcomes move to remove killer's guardianship rights

 Valerie French Kilroy was strangled and stabbed to death.

The brother of murdered Cork woman Valerie French Kilroy says the focus on preserving the family unit has been taken “to an absolutely fundamentalist degree” in the case of his sister’s children.

David French’s 41-year-old sister was killed by her husband James Kilroy in Westport, Co Mayo, in 2019. Kilroy was found guilty of the west Cork native’s murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court last year.