Kanturk deaths - Greed , Pure and Simple !

But if the father alone committed the murder/suicide....his remaining favourite son would get both farms...but maybe father and son were inseparable without each other.

Sick bastards shouldn't even have been granted a funeral ,the father must have fuelled the whole situation ,his only son was getting the farm , absolutely useless headcases,

Makes you wonder why farmers are treated differently in divorce and separation of marriages , imagine telling a farmer getting divorced he has to sell the farm and give half the proceeds to the ex-wife or kids .

When you say 'his only son' what do you mean? Was the elder boy from a different relationship, or adopted/fostered?

@shesty "And how the father was persuaded into being an accomplice....it makes no sense.Incomprehensible."

I don't think he was persuaded ,I reckon he was driving this whole situation to benefit himself and no one else , even if Ann signed everything over to the youngest son the father would have likely controlled him or help him along the way in a suspicious death

The elder son was the spitting image of the father so unlikely he wasnt his son.

A shower of lunatics with serious mental health issues that were never addressed in my opinion. Living out in the middle of nowhere with nothing to worry them except land and what the neighbours thought of them.

Did either of them have the green cert done? as that is a big issue with farm inheritance tax issues

Can fully understand the irrationality of people when it comes to property and land.

People do bizarre and fully planned things

If you think this terrible story is amusing either you don't understand the word amusing or you have a few mental issues yourself.

Speaking of greed, there was a family ran travel agency that all my extended family and ourselves had been customers of for 30 plus years, they were great to do business with, not the cheapest always but their employees had an encyclopedic knowledge of travel and were helpful and enthusiastic and provided a seriously personable and personalized service ....

around 6 years ago staff started leaving and by that I mean staff who were great and were there years in the main...due to what we’ve been told was having their pay frozen, and the employers becoming pricks... they hadn't seen a cent extra in three to four years and all of a sudden were getting hassle if a customer was expressing interest in a holiday but ultimately not booking...

my cousin got me a link to their published accounts, over the last decade their cumulative profit for those years I’m working out now was 1.54 million... not turnover...profit... 8 of those 10 years were six figure profit yet for years they were refusing to give a couple of euro to their employees...

when they closed up shop to ‘retire’ staff were left hanging for promised references... and wages although grapevine says that was ironed out...

It’s not ‘massive’ but when you only have a small family business with three full time employees besides the husband and wife ... and the profit is literally yearly... over a decade, I really think in recognition of their valued service and to the business keep them in situ a fair and simple increase would be proportional...nobody is suggesting they threw tens of thousands at them. :)

they shafted their staff for promised references too which was only something sorted out by a chance meeting over a year later.... that stuck in the craw as much as anything as one of their remaining staff was there years and had a long service to the company and certainly was the girl who we deal the most with... went over and above to help and facilitate clients.

Which ethnicity would that be?

"thats way beyond greed... they are a pair of absolute psychos."

Being greedy and psycho have surprisingly lot in common.

Inheritance involving land seems to spark a lot of emotions in some people.

Rural Ireland is full of embittered families over the way things were and weren't done.

I know of children who have tried to do their own mothers out of inheritance when their father died

Well done. You will never regret. I have seen many sibling relationships shattered while legal fees mounted up and ultimate profits squandered.