Wednesday 7 September 2022 08:29 AM Heartbroken mother of three siblings killed at their home in Ireland clutches ... trends now
The heartbroken mother of three children found stabbed to death in their home in Ireland lovingly clutched a framed photo as she attended a vigil last night.
Margaret 'Twink' Cash McDonagh, 40, attended the memorial prayer service for her eight-year-old twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley, and their older sister Lisa Cash, 18.
Their brother Andy Cash, 24, has been charged with killing the trio in a horrific knife frenzy in the early hours of Sunday morning at their home in Rossfield Avenue, Tallaght.
Other family members, friends and neighbours attended the vigil held at a local church last night.
Ms McDonagh wept as she held on to the photo and the family made a heartbreaking plea for everyone to remember the 'forever young' children.
Margaret 'Twink' Cash McDonagh (wearing black) leans on the shoulder of a mourner during a vigil for her three children yesterday
Eight-year-old twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley were stabbed to death in their home in Ireland on Sunday morning
Lisa Cash, 18, who along with her two younger siblings died in a violent incident at a house in Tallaght, Dublin
Wearing black, she was helped in to the service by two family members and sat in the front row alongside other relatives, The Sun reported.
Father Bill O'Shaughnessy told the mourners: 'Tonight is just about a simple and gentle bit of prayer to remember three beautiful young people, Chelsea, Christy and Lisa, and to pray for each other in heavy and dark times that have hit this community and really just to be there for each other.'
The siblings will be laid to rest together at a joint funeral on Friday at St Aidan's Church in Brookfield.
An online notice read: 'Tragically, at home; beloved and cherished son and daughters of Margaret and the late Andy Cash and Billy Cawley and much loved brother and sisters of Margaret and Mikey.
'Lisa, Chelsea and Christy will be forever loved and very sadly missed by their heartbroken family, grandparents Martin McDonagh, Martin and Mag, aunts, uncles, cousins, brother-in-law Michael, nephew Baby David, extended family and all their many friends.'
Nan Cawley, a relative of the children, wrote a moving poem dedicated to 'Tallaght's Angels'.
One line reads: 'Three young lives cut short, With so much left to give, Let's not think of how they died, Just how they lived.'
Appearing in court Monday evening, Cash replied 'no comment' when charged with the murders of his three siblings.
Judge McNamara denied a request from his solicitor that he should be kept in solitary confinement.
Andy Cash (pictured), 24, has been charged with killing his sister, 18, and eight-year-old twin siblings in Dublin, as neighbours honoured the tragic victims on Monday
Twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley, aged eight, and their older sister Lisa Cash, 18, were killed at their home in Rossfield Avenue, Tallaght. Pictured: Locals release balloons at a vigil for the three siblings, who died on Sunday morning
At about 9.20pm on Monday, Cash appeared before a special sitting of Dublin District Court, charged with three courts of murder.
Cash of Tallaght, south Dublin, stood when requested by Judge McNamara so she could formally identify him at the special sitting.
McNamara remanded Nash in custody. He will appear before Cloverhill district court at 10am on Friday via video link.
Cash allegedly stabbed Lisa when she tried to protect the twins, while their 14-year-old brother managed to escape through a window and call for help, the Irish Sun reported.
Lisa's body was found at the bottom of the stairs with apparent stab wounds.
Lisa Cash, 18, and her two younger siblings, eight-year-old twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley
It is believed that older sister Lisa was babysitting at the time they lost their lives.
Now, three local schools are united in grief, and are together trying to find a way to explain the deaths of three young people to classmates and friends and minds too young to grasp what happened in that home.
Balloons were released into the air in their memory, while schoolchildren and friends broke down in tears as their parents struggled to find the words to comfort them.
The victims' 14-year-old brother was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, and their mother, a woman in her 40s, was released from hospital on Sunday and is being supported by her family.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has expressed his 'deepest sympathies' to their family, and said that the 'terrible tragedy' had 'left the nation shocked and very saddened', while Garda
