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Her Name Is Clodagh - A Claire Byrne Special

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honeyrider · 25/02/2019 00:08

This is on RTE One tomorrow night at 10.35pm if anyone is interested. Clodagh's mother and sister speak out.

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SmallAndFarAway · 25/02/2019 00:44

Thank you, I'm glad to see she is not forgotten

MotherForkinShirtBalls · 25/02/2019 01:01

I saw this on the rte website today. I've no doubt it will be harrowing, but I'm glad Clodagh's sister and mother have the chance to remember her publicly.

beanaseireann · 25/02/2019 13:14

I was just about to post this.
Thanks honeyrider.

Pishogue · 25/02/2019 13:16

Damn, it won't be on the free RTE International iPlayer. Delighted to hear this is on. I don't forget her either.

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honeyrider · 25/02/2019 23:08

Harrowing viewing, god he was evil.

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Pinkkahori · 25/02/2019 23:22

It is absolutely harrowing. That poor family.

JaneJeffer · 26/02/2019 10:16

Her poor mother going to the house to see what was wrong. So awful. They are amazing, strong people

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honeyrider · 26/02/2019 13:01

They were very dignified, for once Claire Byrne did a good job and you could see how difficult it was for her to do too.

The school came off very badly, looks like it's covering up something, I'd be very concerned if I had a child in that school.

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SenecaFalls · 26/02/2019 13:04

Thanks for posting this. I hope I can find a platform to watch it in the US.

Pinkkahori · 26/02/2019 22:16

It really showed that we need more awareness of domestic abuse in all its forms.

beanaseireann · 26/02/2019 23:29

I watched it tonight.
Harrowing.

Lovethighland · 26/02/2019 23:37

I read the transcript, it's horrific but I'm glad for the family that the truth (or at least some of it) is out. It looks like theres plenty more that is known but the family of Clodagh might never know.

Reading what happened inside that house demonstrates that there is no room for sympathy for that man.

beanaseireann · 03/03/2019 14:26

Clodagh's Mother and sister are two great women.
I understood from the programme that Jacqueline also has lost her husband.

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honeyrider · 04/03/2019 14:12

Yeah and also her brother.

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beanaseireann · 04/03/2019 20:38

Her brother ?

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honeyrider · 04/03/2019 23:16

Yeah her brother

evoke.ie/2016/08/31/news/irish-news/irish-murder-suicide-second-tragedy-for-family

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beanaseireann · 05/03/2019 07:52

Oh my.
How much can those two women take.
They are so strong.
I salute them.

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honeyrider · 05/03/2019 23:03

Alan Hawe's parents are being lambasted on social media and deservedly so. Clodagh's family received a solicitor's letter about the house, cars and money 2 weeks after the funerals. The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

They should hang their heads in shame profiting from the brutal murders of their grandchildren and DIL at the hands of their evil son. May they never have any comfort with the blood money.

Clodagh's mother and sister are left with over €50,000 debts having paid for the funerals and legal fees and they both on widows pensions.

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beanaseireann · 05/03/2019 23:37

That is awful honeyrider.
The 'Not Profiting from evil acts' law should be brought into play asap. The politicians, when it suits them can pass laws quickly enough. Why not this one ?

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honeyrider · 05/03/2019 23:55

People have been campaigning for it to change for years.

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beanaseireann · 07/03/2019 20:29

The Garda Commissioner is setting up a Serious Case Review into the case on the back of the publicity Mary and Jacqueline.
Now if only our politicians could get their as*es in gear and enact laws re perpetrators gaining in the event of murder.

JaneJeffer · 13/03/2019 13:46

m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/alan-hawe-never-accessed-online-porn-during-school-day-school-confirms-killer-wasnt-facing-disciplinary-action-37906968.html
The school has spoken out.

beanaseireann · 13/03/2019 16:49

I saw that JaneJeffer
So no answer to the Why ?
I'm gobsmacked that supposedly nobody in the school Alan Hawe taught in, sent a note of sympathy to Clodagh's family.
Normally, Irish people are very supportive.
Perhaps I misheard ?

HollowTalk · 13/03/2019 16:52

Why on earth was he telling a counsellor that he had been caught masturbating in school when he hadn't?

I assume his family benefited from the inheritance because he was the last to die. That was because he murdered the others - surely that rule doesn't stand then?

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