Second murder-suicide to rock north Cork in just a few months

As news of this latest double-murder and suicide tragedy began to emerge in the early hours of Friday morning, people's thoughts turned to the sequence of events which tore the O'Sullivan family apart in Kanturk late last year

The farm at Curraghgorm, Mitchelstown, where the bodies of Paddy and Willie Hennessy were found early on Friday. The body of their brother Johnny, 59, was later found a few kilometres away. Picture: Larry Cummins

This is the second apparent murder-suicide to rock a rural community in north Cork in less than five months.

And it is another set of violent deaths in an area still coming to terms with the gruesome discovery earlier this month of the body of a woman in a burning car.