GARDAÍ ARE CONTINUING to investigate “all circumstances” surrounding the death of a woman in Louth yesterday.
The woman was named locally as Jaqueline McDonagh (34), a mother of three, married to Michael Quinn McDonagh.
Shocked
Local Sinn Fein councillor Kevin Meenan said that people are “shocked” over the murder, particularly as it was a mother who was murdered.
People who wouldn’t normally be shocked are shocked. It’s very sad.
He said he had been speaking to locals yesterday who live in the College Manor area.
He said it was a new area and “a good area now at the moment” where many people “keep themselves to themselves” as did the victim, from accounts he had heard.
There were no problems with her at all. There’s a lot of Travellers in Dundalk that are settled and they are part of normal life and integrating themselves.
He said that people are “worried in general terms if anything happens” and that you “never know what’s around the corner”.
Meenan said the case “is something you’d see on the telly down the country, and now it’s on the doorstep”.
He said it also brought back memories for people of another high profile case in which a mother of three was killed in her own home in Dundalk.
The fact it’s a woman brings back the whole Irene Wright [murder in April 2005]; that’s still fresh in people’s minds.
The councillor said that people hope that police will bring to justice whoever it was and that it is “speedy and swift”.
Hopefully they will be brought to justice very quickly.
He added that there are “tons of different rumours going round” about the incident, many contradicting each other.
Post-mortem
It is believed a post-mortem carried out on the body last night has been completed, but the results have not been released.
Gardaí in Dundalk are investigating the case. The victim’s body was found at a house in College Manor at Hoeys Lane in Dundalk at about 3am yesterday morning.
Gardaí are appealing to anyone with information to contact Dundalk gardaí on 042 933 5577.
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