'The horror will never leave us': Thomas Dooley's widow recalls 'pure softy' who lived for his family

Siobhán Dooley said 'horror show' she encountered in the Tralee graveyard where her husband was brutally murdered would have 'an everlasting impact'

Siobhán Dooley speaking to the media outside court. Picture: Jim Coughlan

The widow of Tom Dooley recalled the ‘horror show’ at a Tralee cemetery and said on Tuesday she would never understand why her husband — “a pure softy, never a troublemaker” — would meet such a horrible death.

Life sentences for murder were imposed on Tuesday on five men of the Dooley name for murdering 43-year-old father of seven Tom Dooley — to whom they were all variously related — at Rathass Cemetery in Tralee in October 2022.