The deaths of Elizabeth Kerr and the daughters she treated like princesses devastated the parish of Windgap but the loss has been compounded by the arrest of two locals and the unsettling fact that six men four of them married called at the home of a woman whose own troubled past is only now emerging
In the rainswept graveyard at-Windgap, two small teddybears wrapped in plastic cling film either side to a cherubic angel. Elsewhere on the grave, the floral tributes to-seven-year-old Zsara and two-year-old Nadia Kerr are still fresh despite the harsh January cold.
Like the teddy bears wrapped about an angel, the children were buried in the one grave with their mother, Elizabeth.
All that remains of their lives now is the mystery of their death: the why and how of their leaving as resonant as the tick and tock of the clock on long cold days of mourning.
Gardai are still investigating why and how Elizabeth and the children died. Last night, they released a man in his 20s without charge after questioning him over a 24-hour period about the murders. The man, who works in the south Kilkenny area, was known to Elizabeth Kerr.
Locals in Windgap were astonished at-the mans arrest and release, the fact that he was known to the Whelan family further adding to the paralysing sense of shock in the village.The spectre of the childrens white coffins being laid into the grave on New Years Day still haunts the 500 or so people who gathered from throughout south Kilkenny for their funeral. In many ways the innocence of Zsara and Nadia deflected from Elizabeth sown youth. She was only 30 years.
Her life may have been defined by her children neighbours only ever remember seeing her with the two girls in tow, always dressed prettily, often in pink.
In the rainswept graveyard at-Windgap, two small teddybears wrapped in plastic cling film either side to a cherubic angel. Elsewhere on the grave, the floral tributes to-seven-year-old Zsara and two-year-old Nadia Kerr are still fresh despite the harsh January cold.
Like the teddy bears wrapped about an angel, the children were buried in the one grave with their mother, Elizabeth.
All that remains of their lives now is the mystery of their death: the why and how of their leaving as resonant as the tick and tock of the clock on long cold days of mourning.
Gardai are still investigating why and how Elizabeth and the children died. Last night, they released a man in his 20s without charge after questioning him over a 24-hour period about the murders. The man, who works in the south Kilkenny area, was known to Elizabeth Kerr.
Locals in Windgap were astonished at-the mans arrest and release, the fact that he was known to the Whelan family further adding to the paralysing sense of shock in the village.The spectre of the childrens white coffins being laid into the grave on New Years Day still haunts the 500 or so people who gathered from throughout south Kilkenny for their funeral. In many ways the innocence of Zsara and Nadia deflected from Elizabeth sown youth. She was only 30 years.
Her life may have been defined by her children neighbours only ever remember seeing her with the two girls in tow, always dressed prettily, often in pink.
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