Murder victims ‘were never any harm to anyone’

Murder victims Jack and Tommy Blaine’s cousin, Paul Dunne, talks about the men he knew so well

JACK and Tommy’s mother Delia was my father’s sister. She married Michael Joe Blaine from Crimlin and that’s where the three sons were born. The middle brother, Michael Joe, died last year from stomach cancer. Jack, who was christened John, was 76 and Tommy was 69.

All three of them went to the UK to work. Jack was the first to go, he worked as a builder’s labourer as did Tommy. Michael Joe worked for McAlpine’s.