Neil Michael: A father and two sons dead, a community heartbroken

As the tragedy unfolded this morning, a distraught mother and wife managed to flee from the house and went to a neighbour to raise the alarm

The remains of the O’Sullivan family Diarmuid, Mark and their father Tadgh who were killed after a shooting incident near Kanturk are brought to the mortuary at the Cork University Hospital last night by three hearses. Picture Dan Linehan

As darkness began to fall on the remote farmland where the lives of three O'Sullivan men were lost, the only sound to be heard was the barking of a solitary dog.

The small huddle of onlookers, staring at the farm from across fields, had now disappeared.