Cork murder-suicide 'linked to proposed will'
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Diarmuid O'Sullivan, 23, Mark O'Sullivan, 26, and their father Tadgh O'Sullivan, 59, died in the incident
³Ò²¹°ù»å²¹Ã (Irish police) are investigating if the suspected murder-suicide of a father and his two sons in County Cork was motivated by a dispute over a proposed will.
The bodies of Tadgh O'Sullivan, 59, and sons Diarmuid, 23, and Mark, 26, were found at a farm near Kanturk on Monday.
RTÉ has reported that a note running to about 12 pages was found on the body of Diarmuid O'Sullivan.
³Ò²¹°ù»å²¹Ã suspect he conspired with his father in the shooting, they said.
The alarm was raised on Monday when a woman aged in her 60s, believed to be the mother, alerted neighbours that a shot had been fired inside the house.
The body of Mark O'Sullivan was found in a bedroom before the bodies of his father and brother were found near a ringfort less than a mile away.
Two rifles discovered close to the ringfort have been sent for ballistic examination which police hope will reveal information about the sequence of events.
A post-mortem examination on the body of Mark O'Sullivan is due to be completed on Wednesday.
Formal identification of the men by a family friend is expected to take place on Wednesday.
- Published27 October 2020
