Macroom murder: 'I am after losing not just my father but my mother too'

Rita O’Driscoll was given the mandatory life sentence for murdering her former husband, Timmy Foley.

Breda and Mary O’Driscoll, Ita McKer, Molly Foley, Martina Walsh and Ann Foley arriving at the Anglesea Street courthouse in Cork today. Picture: Dan Linehan.

The daughter of a woman jailed for life for murdering her ex-husband cried out: “I am after losing not just my father but my mother too.” 

Chantel Foley wept as her mother was taken away to start a life sentence and said: “The two of them are gone now.”