A person replied “no remark” when charged with the murders of his three siblings in Dublin over the weekend, a courtroom has heard.
Twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley (8), and their older sister Lisa Money (18), died following a violent incident at their Tallaght residence shortly after midnight on Sunday.
Gardai arrested a person on the property on Rossfield Avenue and he was subsequently taken into custody.
The person was questioned over two days and final night time Andy Money (24), of Rossfield Avenue in Tallaght, appeared earlier than a particular sitting of Dublin District Courtroom.
He was charged with the murders of his brother and two sisters at their residence on September 4.
Garda Robert Whitty, of Tallaght garda station, gave proof of arrest, cost and warning.
The courtroom heard Andy Money replied “no remark” to every cost after they had been put to him.
His defence solicitor additionally requested a psychological evaluation and solitary confinement for his shopper.
Choose Patricia McNamara stated this was a matter for the jail governor however added that this is able to be famous.
Following his look Choose McNamara remanded the defendant in custody, as a bail software for a homicide cost can solely be granted by the Excessive Courtroom.
There was a big plain clothed and uniformed garda presence in courtroom for the transient listening to.
Money will seem earlier than Cloverhill district courtroom subsequent Friday, September 9, by way of video hyperlink.
Following the incident on Sunday, the siblings’ mom, aged in her 40s, who was not within the property on the time, was additionally hospitalised. She has since been discharged and is being supported by members of the family.
The scene in Rossfield Property stays sealed off and forensic examinations are nonetheless being performed by the Garda Technical Bureau.
A considerable amount of floral tributes and posters have been left on the scene by household, associates, and family members of the three deceased.
A former senior PSNI officer who labored by way of the worst of the Troubles has stated the murders of the three siblings was “one of many worst incidents that I’ve heard of or come throughout in my service”.
Garda commissioner Drew Harris, a former PSNI deputy chief constable, stated it was “probably the most dreadful and traumatic incident resulting in the demise of two kids and a teenager. Sincerely, probably the most dreadful incident”.
The Commissioner appealed to anybody who was within the space on the time and will have any info to come back ahead to assist the gardai with their investigation.
Final night time, a vigil was held for the three siblings. A big crowd gathered exterior their home to mourn alongside household and associates. Balloons had been launched and candles had been lit alongside the wall exterior the home of their reminiscence as songs had been performed to the gang.
Dozens of bunches of flowers, teddy bears and candles have been positioned alongside the wall in addition to images of the three, displaying Christy and Chelsea making their first Holy Communion.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin has expressed his “deepest sympathies” to their household, and stated that the “horrible tragedy” had “left the nation shocked and really saddened”.
The victims’ 14-year-old brother was taken to hospital with severe however non-life threatening accidents.
A faculty principal stated the group was in shock.
Talking on RTE Morning Eire yesterday, the principal of St Aidan’s Neighborhood College Kevin Shortall paid tribute to Lisa Money.
“She was a quiet, stunning younger woman, very diligent, hard-working. Obtained on along with her work. Was a terrific assist to her associates in occasions of bother, I heard that from numerous folks yesterday,” he stated.
“She is remembered as one of the sincere, real younger folks, filled with integrity and no fuss, no drama round her. Obtained about her enterprise and was vastly, extremely regarded and really warmly remembered by so many workers members right here within the faculty.
“I couldn’t recover from the issues that individuals had been saying about her. Only a pretty, pretty individual, vastly extremely regarded and shall be terribly, badly missed. And a beautiful large sister to her brothers and sisters as effectively.
“I consider she was babysitting on the time, and that will have been one thing that she was simply so good at. She was the type of individual you may belief. That’s the individual Lisa was.”