"I knew the poor man had had his problems over the past couple of years but he certainly seemed cheerful enough over Christmas." One local said Mr Greaney seemed "in very good form" as he helped distribute the Eucharist at Christmas Day Mass. He served as a Minister of the Eucharist at St Colman's Cathedral. Mr Greaney remained a high profile figure around Cobh. Both families had done everything possible to support the family in the face of their problems over recent years. The financial problems hit him hard and he suffered mental health issues.īoth Mr Greaney and his wife hailed from highly respected Cobh families. Mr Greaney ran a physiotherapy business which, unfortunately, had run into difficulties. "Everyone in Cobh remembers that terrible tragedy in 1991 and for a town to suffer a second is almost too much to bear." It is almost too terrible to believe," one elderly neighbour said. "Michael and Valerie are so well known and so respected around Cobh. One neighbour admitted that people were physically taken aback when they heard the news of the triple tragedy.
The couple's three children, aged one to eight, were found unharmed in the downstairs sitting-room. The couple were found by a neighbour after he received a phone call from Mr O'Grady who had mysteriously asked him to look after their children. Niall O'Grady (35) and his wife Veronica (33) were found dead from stab wounds in an upstairs bedroom of their home at Rushbrooke, just outside Cobh, in July 1991. The tight-knit town of Cobh was last night struggling to come to terms with Ireland's latest apparent murder-suicide.īut what made the news all the more shocking was how it brought back memories of a similar local tragedy when two other parents died in a brutal stabbing some 23 years ago.
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