'It would drive you mad': Cork woman worried about possible parole for daughter's murderer

Olivia Dunlea was stabbed six times by Darren Murphy who then set fire to the duvet on the bed where she lay dying paralysed from her injuries
'It would drive you mad': Cork woman worried about possible parole for daughter's murderer

The murder of Cork woman Olivia Dunlea (pictured, will be featured in an episode of TG4's Marú Inár Measc on Wednesday.

The mother of a woman who was stabbed six times by her partner, who then set fire to the duvet on the bed where she lay dying paralysed from her injuries, has said that it is “maddening ” to think that he can apply for parole this year.

Darren Murphy set a second fire downstairs in the kitchen of Olivia Dunlea’s home in Passage West, Co Cork on February 17, 2013, before he fled the scene.

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