Media must read between the lines when it comes to murder-suicide

Coverage of such cases has brought to light the media's power to inform society about a phenomenon of which they would otherwise have little direct knowledge
Media must read between the lines when it comes to murder-suicide

Diarmuid, Tadg and Mark O'Sullivan.  Yesterday, a jury at the inquest into the death of Mark returned a verdict of unlawful killing and that both his brother and father took their own lives.

On October 26 last year, Mark O'Sullivan was asleep in his bedroom when he was shot dead by his father Tadg and brother Diarmuid following a festering row over who would get the family's 150 acre farm in Kanturk, Co Cork, when Diarmuid and Mark's mother died.

Tadg and Diarmuid were later found dead near an old fort close to the farmhouse, about 500m away.

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