Kanturk killings: Bank Holiday tragedy that rocked a community

There is at least one internal Garda review ongoing into the events that led up to the deaths a year ago of Tadg, Mark and Diarmuid O’Sullivan in Kanturk over a land dispute.

Tadg, Mark and Diarmuid O’Sullivan who died in a shooting in a remote part of Kanturk in North Cork. Picture: Gardaí

The brutal nightmare that would haunt Anne O’Sullivan to the day she died last April began with gunshots in a bedroom of her secluded north Cork farmhouse last year.

Although she had woken at around 6am on Monday, October 26, because she had heard movement outside her room, she dozed off again. However, it was a short time later that she woke up with a start.