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Claire Byrne show. Her name was Clodagh

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    I live in a rural community and Im not involved in the GAA. To be honest I feel a bit of resentment from the local GAA heads that I never "togged out" little snide remarks and been excluded from certain things parties stag do's etc.. Maybe they just dont like me, I was a pretty good hurler when I was younger but never continued it on and i sense a bit of bitterness..But anyway it dosent really bother me but this kind of stuff does exist

    GAA can be very cliquey. If you're not part of the core clique. If your father didn't play. If you're relatively new to an area. A lot of bull about the community etc, it can be very exclusive. If your as good a player as another fella but he's in the group he'll get pushed ahead of you, given the benefit of a bad game while you'll be dropped. An inflated opinion of their 'hardness' too. When all a lot rely on is the safety of the clique and numbers. On their own they can be very cowardly.

    Grudges with neighbouring clubs going back generations that you don't get in soccer, rugby.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I have never felt excluded in rural Ireland for not being part of the GAA.
    Are you talking in general or in Alan Hawes case. If somebody is involved in a club they generally talk about it when your dead.
    For example if he set up the local drama society they'd be talking about that.
    Criminal examples would be Joe o Reilly was big into the GYM.
    Graham Dwyer was into his toy planes and his cars.

    I think the issue is that no matter what scandal, murder, death, suicide, road accident whatever, it seems to me that the GAA is always mentioned in National media. That is because it is totally pervasive in the community, so much more than a solitary activity like the gym.

    I really don't think the same applies to the gym or canoeing, or hill walking or whatever.

    RIP to all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    I think the issue is that no matter what scandal, murder, death, suicide, road accident whatever, it seems to me that the GAA is always mentioned in National media. That is because it is totally pervasive in the community, so much more than a solitary activity like the gym.

    I really don't think the same applies to the gym or canoeing, or hill walking or whatever.

    RIP to all.

    The GAA is a national association. The gym etc aren't.

    In my previous post i've spoken about the petty side of the GAA, however there is a corollary to this, keeping many young men involved in what is generally a healthy outlet etc. And there are differences between clubs etc.

    But when someone commits a murder or mass murders his hobbies shouldn't be a reference point.

    Amen. RIP all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Marengo wrote: »
    GAA can be very cliquey. If you're not part of the core clique. If your father didn't play. If you're relatively new to an area. A lot of bull about the community etc, it can be very exclusive. If your as good a player as another fella but he's in the group he'll get pushed ahead of you, given the benefit of a bad game while you'll be dropped. An inflated opinion of their 'hardness' too. When all a lot rely on is the safety of the clique and numbers. On their own they can be very cowardly.

    Grudges with neighbouring clubs going back generations that you don't get in soccer, rugby.

    Totally get what you are saying. And it can be so true also.

    It is a clique for sure.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I think there's some merit in saying that in a rural community everyone knows everyone else's business, but to be painting people in rural areas as god-fearing, GAA worshipping and all-round subservient eejits to any person with a profession or title is utter hogwash. This may have been true in 50s Ireland but not anymore.
    I've lived in rural areas all my life and have never came across the type of adulation being suggested.
    Alan Hawe was intelligent enough to get a qualification in teaching and from that a career working in his chosen area. I suspect it was his own sense of grandiosity that may have led to his horrific actions, not the community he lived in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Marengo wrote: »
    The GAA is a national association. The gym etc aren't.

    In my previous post i've spoken about the petty side of the GAA, however there is a corollary to this, keeping many young men involved in what is generally a healthy outlet etc. And there are differences between clubs etc.

    But when someone commits a murder or mass murders his hobbies shouldn't be a reference point.

    Amen. RIP all.

    I think I may have cross posted with you. But my feeling is that the GAA is the god of many now.

    I wonder how saintly they are in comparison with the Scouts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    I think I may have cross posted with you. But my feeling is that the GAA is the god of many now.

    I wonder how saintly they are in comparison with the Scouts.

    The Galway case about the verbal abuse of too young players (14 or so) wasn't pleasant reading last year.

    All sporting groups, professions, trades are capable of abuse. Mix of good and bad everywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think the issue is that no matter what scandal, murder, death, suicide, road accident whatever, it seems to me that the GAA is always mentioned in National media. That is because it is totally pervasive in the community, so much more than a solitary activity like the gym.

    I really don't think the same applies to the gym or canoeing, or hill walking or whatever.

    RIP to all.

    I don't know if we have crossed wires or what. However in my experience if a person is a member of a local club and they die. They generally discus it or mention it.
    I think I may have cross posted with you. But my feeling is that the GAA is the god of many now.

    I wonder how saintly they are in comparison with the Scouts.

    Nobody is denying there isn't problems within the GAA.
    They have being people convicted of abuse within clubs. Similarly they've being people convicted with who were coaches in soccer, rugby, swimming clubs, etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Marengo wrote: »
    The Galway case about the verbal abuse of too young players (14 or so) wasn't pleasant reading last year.

    All sporting groups, professions, trades are capable of abuse. Mix of good and bad everywhere.

    Indeed, but it should never happen either.

    The poor kids who play their fekkin hearts out for GAA and for what? I often wonder qui bono? But anyway.

    The GAA is a huge organisation. Bigger than any other voluntary sport in this country. And with a huge amount of Government support also, still we are expected to contribute. I Don't get that. But hey.

    Comment is free!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I think there's some merit in saying that in a rural community everyone knows everyone else's business, but to be painting people in rural areas as god-fearing, GAA worshipping and all-round subservient eejits to any person with a profession or title is utter hogwash. This may have been true in 50s Ireland but not anymore.
    I've lived in rural areas all my life and have never came across the type of adulation being suggested.
    Alan Hawe was intelligent enough to get a qualification in teaching and from that a career working in his chosen area. I suspect it was his own sense of grandiosity that may have led to his horrific actions, not the community he lived in.

    Why is it then that GAA is mentioned a lot in tragic rural deaths. Would the same happen in cities like Cork, Limerick or Dublin for example?

    Hogwash indeed. :p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    I think there's some merit in saying that in a rural community everyone knows everyone else's business, but to be painting people in rural areas as god-fearing, GAA worshipping and all-round subservient eejits to any person with a profession or title is utter hogwash. This may have been true in 50s Ireland but not anymore.
    I've lived in rural areas all my life and have never came across the type of adulation being suggested.
    Alan Hawe was intelligent enough to get a qualification in teaching and from that a career working in his chosen area. I suspect it was his own sense of grandiosity that may have led to his horrific actions, not the community he lived in.

    No one is suggesting that anyone but Hawe is responsible for what happened but there is a toxic undercurrent in Irish life that is rarely addressed through the media etc. Obviously this is a very extreme case but you dont need to look much further than the recent abuse scandals to find that there is issues with how we view authority figures and how wrongdoing is treated in comparison to other individuals


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    theres a few go-to voices in a story

    witnesses, family, neighbours, work/school

    in a rural case then yeah the gaa club, or the priest, or worst of all the county councillor will be pressed for a few words.

    its usually desperate stuff, and especially so in a tragic instance.

    as usual, the media drive it and tell you that you wanted it


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Why is it then that GAA is mentioned a lot in tragic rural deaths. Would the same happen in cities like Cork, Limerick or Dublin for example?

    Hogwash indeed. :p

    Sorry Spanish Eyes, but I'm still failing to see the correlation between the GAA and familicide.
    No one is suggesting that anyone but Hawe is responsible for what happened but there is a toxic undercurrent in Irish life that is rarely addressed through the media etc. Obviously this is a very extreme case but you dont need to look much further than the recent abuse scandals to find that there is issues with how we view authority figures and how wrongdoing is treated in comparison to other individuals

    I'm not preaching the merits of any organisation. Are we not discussing an individual's actions?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Ok so lets say Hawe was a plumber who came into the school to do a job, when no one was looking he went on the school PC and went looking up porn and masturbating and got caught. Then I'd assume the guards would have been called, the word would have gone round the parish pretty quickly what this guy was up to and his wife would have found out what he was up to. But as he the school vice principal the matter was handled more sensitively, maybe even kept quiet for a while, before being brought to light. He may have even had a full summer to plan what he was going to do..Im surmising without the facts of course but do you see the problem here?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Ok so lets say Hawe was a plumber who came into the school to do a job, when no one was looking he went on the school PC and went looking up porn and masturbating and got caught. Then I'd assume the guards would have been called, the word would have gone round the parish pretty quickly what this guy was up to and his wife would have found out what he was up to. But as he the school vice principal the matter was handled more sensitively, maybe even kept quiet for a while, before being brought to light. He may have even had a full summer to plan what he was going to do..Im surmising without the facts of course but do you see the problem here?

    The pillar of society, along with the GAA connection.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Ok so lets say Hawe was a plumber who came into the school to do a job, when no one was looking he went on the school PC and went looking up porn and masturbating and got caught. Then I'd assume the guards would have been called, the word would have gone round the parish pretty quickly what this guy was up to and his wife would have found out what he was up to. But as he the school vice principal the matter was handled more sensitively, maybe even kept quiet for a while, before being brought to light. He may have even had a full summer to plan what he was going to do..Im surmising without the facts of course but do you see the problem here?

    From what I know.
    The problem is we don't really know what happened in the school.
    We don't know if it was reported?
    I find it strange that any SNA/Teacher would sit on this for any amount of time because they know there career would be over if they did.
    I also wonder was he suspended. If he was another member of staff would have being acting as vice principal during the Summer probably and this would have being public knowledge in the area. The school would also have being looking for temporary cover in the weeks before hand to cover his classes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Sorry Spanish Eyes, but I'm still failing to see the correlation between the GAA and familicide.



    I'm not preaching the merits of any organisation. Are we not discussing an individual's actions?

    I just said in two previous posts that Hawe is 100% responsible for what happened sometimes you need to look further than the individual's action tho and take into account the environment they existed in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    There is a lot we don't know about anonymous posters on the internet,

    But sadly the bereaved family family of Clodagh and her children do not know anything either it seems.

    Something smells here, and anyone with half a brain can see that also.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Ok so lets say Hawe was a plumber who came into the school to do a job, when no one was looking he went on the school PC and went looking up porn and masturbating and got caught. Then I'd assume the guards would have been called, the word would have gone round the parish pretty quickly what this guy was up to and his wife would have found out what he was up to. But as he the school vice principal the matter was handled more sensitively, maybe even kept quiet for a while, before being brought to light. He may have even had a full summer to plan what he was going to do..Im surmising without the facts of course but do you see the problem here?

    Ah now you're shifting goalposts!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Ah now you're shifting goalposts!

    I probably am Lethal but Im doing so to make a point rather than be taken literally


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Sorry Spanish Eyes, but I'm still failing to see the correlation between the GAA and familicide.



    I'm not preaching the merits of any organisation. Are we not discussing an individual's actions?

    Someone in the community stepped forward and put a GAA jersey on top of Hawes coffin as it was brought into the church alongside the people he savagely murdered.

    If this isnt a correlation I dont know what is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    From what I know.
    The problem is we don't really know what happened in the school.
    We don't know if it was reported?
    I find it strange that any SNA/Teacher would sit on this for any amount of time because they know there career would be over if they did.
    I also wonder was he suspended. If he was another member of staff would have being acting as vice principal during the Summer probably and this would have being public knowledge in the area. The school would also have being looking for temporary cover in the weeks before hand to cover his classes.

    It is reported that Clodagh had disclosed to her mother his watching this type of material. The fact that he waited to the very last day before school to murder his family and and to commit suicide imply that the issue was about to come out - and perhaps indicates that it about to be was D day for him and his behaviour and likley repercussions. From his lack of control whilst at work and the extracts of the letter he wrote - some of that content points to something much more serious than top shelf variety porn imo. That he reveals that "there was some sort of psychosis that made me enjoy that” regarding the murder of his family, to me is indicative of illegal / extreme porn and his acceptance of it. I also believe his actions were very much deliberate and premeditated to this point.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    Sorry, haven't read whole thread, don't know if this is mentioned, him driving around after murders - maybe even going to school.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/hawe-was-seen-driving-car-after-clodagh-and-the-boys-jacqueline-connollys-powerful-account-of-tragedy-37872187.html
    In a powerful and moving account, published exclusively in today’s Sunday Independent, Clodagh’s sister Jacqueline Connolly reveals for the first time that a local man told her that he and another person saw Hawe driving near Castlerahan school in Cavan in the early hours of August 29, 2016.....Ms Connolly poses the question: “So, after Alan Hawe murdered his wife and three sons, did he leave the house to go to his place of work, Castlerahan School, where he was Vice Principal, perhaps to destroy evidence?”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,735 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    Zorya wrote: »
    Sorry, haven't read whole thread, don't know if this is mentioned, him driving around after murders - maybe even going to school.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/hawe-was-seen-driving-car-after-clodagh-and-the-boys-jacqueline-connollys-powerful-account-of-tragedy-37872187.html


    First time I've heard this.

    Sounds like there's a lot of stuff to come out in this story yet


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    Control freak. Why didn't he just kill his evil self. Hope he rots in hell. Bastard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,735 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    Surely not another cover up :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭JMNolan


    RoboKlopp wrote: »
    Surely not another cover up :eek:

    Well, don't suggest transparency! Some people here don't like transparency, they would prefer things are kept hidden.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,735 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    JMNolan wrote: »
    Well, don't suggest transparency! Some people here don't like transparency, they would prefer things are kept hidden.

    Hopefully everything comes out and the family get all the answers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    I'm thinking when AH wrote his five page letter, why the hell didn't he spill it all out besides his cryptic carry-on. I mean, whatever he did beforehand, how could it possible be worse that brutally murdering his wife and three young boys. The school I personally have sympathy for probably because as yet we actually don't know what happened and what they did or didn't do and so I'm reserving judgement there. There may have begun a process in a perfectly correct way for all we know. However they definitely should be telling the Coll family as much as they (perhaps legally) can. But to me, after Clodagh and the boys, her mother and sister and his own family, everyone at the school, staff and pupils, must have suffered enormously too. They knew the boys as friends and pupils, probably knew Clodagh well too and naturally they laughed and chatted with AH every day completely innocent of what was to happen and they must be reeling with shock and sadness then and still. Yet they have to get on with it, teach, care for and protect the kids in what must be a grief filled atmosphere where his presence must be so easily still pictured. I don't think it's at all fair for people to be almost making the school half responsible for his act as in if they had done this etc. No one could possibly have guessed what he was capable of.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    school mightn't have cctv
    and if it did, the recordings from that have probably been deleted or recorded over
    the school alarm might have a record of all the times it was turned on or off, but going back that far?

    and he could have been involved in soccer, rugby, chess or music it wouldn't have mattered


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    So following murdering his entire family in a brutal fashion, along with writing letters, transferring money around bank accounts it appears he was seen driving near the school in the early hours of the morning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    This certainly doesnt sound like someone in the middle of a catastrophic breakdown.
    The school would have had CCTV for insurance purposes and presumably he had a fob to enter which would be linked to him. It would be very easy to establish if he went into the school.
    If the Gardai said something along the lines of interfering with witnesses then why werent the family told by the Gardai that someone reported that Hawe was seen in the car.
    The sooner the Garda files are handed over the better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    tretorn wrote: »
    This certainly doesnt sound like someone in the middle of a catastrophic breakdown.
    The school would have had CCTV for insurance purposes and presumably he had a fob to enter which would be linked to him. It would be very easy to establish if he went into the school.
    If the Gardai said something along the lines of interfering with witnesses then why werent the family told by the Gardai that someone reported that Hawe was seen in the car.
    The sooner the Garda files are handed over the better.

    not every school has cctv
    especially in a rural area


  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭aloneforever99


    If the Gardai aren't going to give the family closure, there's definitely scope for a good investigative journalist to start pulling these threads together and separating fact from fiction.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Even if the school doesnt have CCTV it would surely have an alarm and to access the school to turn off the alarm you would need a code. Most of these systems link the person who uses the code to a monitor so its possible to identify the person who turned the alarm off and the time the alarm was turned off.
    I very much doubt that the school wasnt alarmed in some wsy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭KM792


    I don't know I watched the show last Monday night and I think those ladies are wracked by their own guilt more than anything.She was their daughter/sister and she was with Hawe all of her adult life;I think they know what she suffered with him more than they let on.I felt like they were holding back on things.
    Of course they are not to blame,no one is to blame.You could tear a case like this apart and blame the school,the state,the gardai but ultimately who knows what the catalyst was for this mans actions?We'l never know what lives inside a persons mind.Never.
    On a side note,the gardai that responded to the call out that morning and had to enter that house...nothing will erase those images,it must be horrific.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    KM792 wrote: »
    I don't know I watched the show last Monday night and I think those ladies are wracked by their own guilt more than anything.She was their daughter/sister and she was with Hawe all of her adult life;I think they know what she suffered with him more than they let on.I felt like they were holding back on things.
    Of course they are not to blame,no one is to blame.You could tear a case like this apart and blame the school,the state,the gardai but ultimately who knows what the catalyst was for this mans actions?We'l never know what lives inside a persons mind.Never.
    On a side note,the gardai that responded to the call out that morning and had to enter that house...nothing will erase those images,it must be horrific.

    Its very difficult to intervene though if your daughter or sister doesnt open up.
    The Colls say they almost never got to meet Clodagh on her own and it went right back to the beginning with buying the bridemaids dresses.

    The point is if the Colls had known what had happened in the school they might have persuaded Clodagh to leave. Was Hawe suspended and did he carry on as normal over the summer with the decision made that his family were going to die. This should have come out st the inquest.

    I thought inquests were about dealing with all relevant facts but yet if Hawe was driving near the school this diesnt apoear to have been disclosed. Did the professional who said at the inquest that Hawe had a breakdown know that someone saw him driving near the school in the early hours, surely this was very relevant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    KM792 wrote: »
    I don't know I watched the show last Monday night and I think those ladies are wracked by their own guilt more than anything.She was their daughter/sister and she was with Hawe all of her adult life;I think they know what she suffered with him more than they let on.I felt like they were holding back on things.

    Sometimes behaviours like his only become clear through retrospective analysing. They listed a few things on Monday night that made them uncomfortable but nonetheless never gave them any cause for alarm. Clodagh seemed happy, her boys seemed happy, they all seemed like a perfectly happy family unit. I’d wager it wasn’t until after the deaths they all sat down and tried to make sense of it all, memories, conversations and behaviours all cams flooding back. I’m sure they feel immense guilt which is natural, of course you would. Why didn’t I do this? I should have said that.. etc. But ultimately they could not have known what was about to happen. They have no reason to hold back on things, they aren’t exactly looking to protect the kind of man he was.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    tretorn wrote: »
    I thought inquests were about dealing with all relevant facts but yet if Hawe was driving near the school this diesnt apoear to have been disclosed. Did the professional who said at the inquest that Hawe had a breakdown know that someone saw him driving near the school in the early hours, surely this was very relevant.

    It looks like the sighting was unconfirmed, the sister says that the neighbour might have been mistaken herself. Her complaint is that they were not kept up to date by the gardai not that it was ignored.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    So someone told Jaqueline that he saw Hawe driving in the early hours near the school . The Colls ask the Gardaí if they were persuing that line of enquiry and told " they were interfering with a witness "How on earth is that interfering with a witness ?

    I know its not legal but isn't it a shame that a murderer who commits suicide cannot be tried before a court and some sort of closure given to the family
    Then the inquest doesn't seem to have done that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Clodagh worked fulltime too so wouldnt have had a lot of time to meet her family on her own. She was probably brought to GAA matches at the weekend en famille, it was said by locals that the family were always together and Hawe would have been present at everything to do with GAA and probably made the whole family accompany him.
    Even on the day the family died they were at a GAA match together and then they all went to clodaghs mother, this was probably the routine most weekends so her family just accepted it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    tretorn wrote: »
    Clodagh worked fulltime too so wouldnt have had a lot of time to meet her family on her own. She was probably brought to GAA matches at the weekend en famille, it was said by locals that the family were always together and Hawe would have been present at everything to do with GAA and probably made the whole family accompany him.
    Even on the day the family died they were at a GAA match together and then they all went to clodaghs mother, this was probably the routine most weekends so her family just accepted it.

    Both her mother and Jaqueline said if Clodagh called in for a cuppa he was always with her . When they called for a chat in her kitchen he came and sat with them . Its controlling behaviour and in my opinion not normal for a couple
    Clodagh was off all summer and I am sure would find time to enjoy a chat with her sister


  • Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭KM792


    What became of the family home?Did his family inherit it?I'd imagine it would be incredibly difficult to sell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Hawe was off all summer too, Clodagh may not have had five minutes to be on her own all summer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    iamwhoiam wrote:
    isn't it a shame that a murderer who commits suicide cannot be tried before a court and some sort of closure given to the family Then the inquest doesn't seem to have done that

    And how exactly do you suggest trying a dead person???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    And how exactly do you suggest trying a dead person???

    I am not suggesting anything , I was simply saying it a shame there is not a trial or a court case to pronounce them guilty . No need to be snipey I was just rambling with thoughts not trying to change the law


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    tretorn wrote: »
    Hawe was off all summer too, Clodagh may not have had five minutes to be on her own all summer.

    Every one finds five minutes to be alone if they are allowed that right


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    tretorn wrote: »
    Even if the school doesnt have CCTV it would surely have an alarm and to access the school to turn off the alarm you would need a code. Most of these systems link the person who uses the code to a monitor so its possible to identify the person who turned the alarm off and the time the alarm was turned off.
    I very much doubt that the school wasnt alarmed in some wsy.

    Yeah.
    One code for the whole alarm usually.
    All the staff would have same code


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  • Registered Users Posts: 340 ✭✭Calltocall


    Just read this https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.thejournal.ie/clodagh-hawe-murder-4521704-Mar2019/%3famp=1 so Hawe went off in his car after the murders apparently close to vicinity of the school, this country can be so ****ing backwards at times, why hide this from the family, why protect this scum sucker, bring it all out into the light, I hope the family keep pushing here, these tiny communities can hide some really dark ****, god fearing on the surface but the reality is very different underneath , lot more to come out on this, the sister is an incredibly brave woman, keep searching for the truth you are a credit to your sister and her children.


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