LAST UPDATE | 9 Sep 2022
HUNDREDS OF MOURNERS gathered for the funeral of three siblings that were killed at their home in Tallaght this morning.
Lisa Cash, 18, and her eight-year-old twin siblings Christy and Chelsea Cawley are being laid to rest at Bohernabreena Cemetery following their funeral mass at St Aidan’s Church in Brookfield at 10am.
A large crowd of mourners gathered yesterday evening as their remains were brought to the church by horse-drawn carriage.
The siblings died after an incident at their home on Rossfield Avenue in Tallaght in the early hours of Sunday.
Parish priest Fr Bill O’Shaughnessy, who will be con-celebrating the mass with Fr Paul O’Driscoll, chaplin to the Parish of the Travelling People, said that the community was “shocked and numb” by the tragedy.
Speaking to RTÉ Radio One this morning, Fr O’Shaughnessy said that their removal last night was “one of the most silent removals to a church I have ever experienced”.
“It was the moment where the community and indeed all those present were just shocked and numb that seeing such beautiful young lives being brought into a church.
“It’s quite extraordinary to see the family just completely numb with silence,” said Fr O’Shaughnessy.
Their older brother Andy Cash, 24, with the same address, has been charged with their murders.
At a special sitting of the District Court at Dublin’s Criminal Courts of Justice on Monday Garda Robert Whitty told the court Cash made no comment when charged with their murders.
He is due to appear via video link at Cloverhill District Court this morning.
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