The Mick Clifford Podcast: Mitchelstown killings - Reporting on a family tragedy

The Mitchelstown killings shocked a community. What happened to prompt this tragedy and could anything have been done to prevent it?
The Mick Clifford Podcast: Mitchelstown killings - Reporting on a family tragedy

A Garda on duty where neighbours left flowers near the Hennessy family farm at Curraghgorm near Mitchelstown. File picture: Dan Linehan

On 25 February last, on a small farm in North Cork, Johnny Hennessy killed his two brothers Paddy and Willie and then drowned himself in a nearby river. 

The three brothers had been close, their lives since childhood having largely revolved around the family farm. 

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