Monageer Report - Tragedy has lessons for each of us

MORE than two years after the dreadful tragedy at Monageer, where Adrian Dunne murdered his wife Ciara and their two children Shania and Leanne before taking his own life, it is difficult to understand or even accept that it could have happened despite all the glaring warning signs.

Local social welfare workers, gardaí, clergy, members the legal profession and the local undertaker all had good reasons to believe that something awful might happen. At the time it was obvious that the stability that anchors most families was absent and that the family was in jeopardy. Some of those aware of this had professional obligations, others had no more than a communal duty of care to a family so obviously in distress.

The same duty of care that binds us all.