Thursday 5 November 2026Compiled from published reports. Every claim links to its source.

Ireland Crime

Every case followed from the first report to the sentence, or to where the reporting stopped.

Named in reporting

Brighid McLaughlin

1 report across 1 case, 4 Mar 2026 to 4 Mar 2026

Victim: Brighid McLaughlin, Irish woman (judged from name)Brighid McLaughlin

Key facts

from every report naming them
Named as
Victim
Offences
Murder
Where
Co. Dublin
Reporting
1 report, 4 Mar 2026 to 4 Mar 2026
Outlets
irishmirror.ie

Cases

latest first
  • Murderer of Dublin woman granted day release from Wheatfield Prison Murder · Co. Dublin

    Brian Kearney, 67, strangled his wife Siobhán McLaughlin, 38, with a vacuum cleaner flex at their home in Goatstown, Dublin, on 28 February 2006, after she was in the process of filing for divorce. Kearney was found guilty of murder by a majority verdict at the Central Criminal Court in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison. He is serving his sentence at Wheatfield Prison and is set to face a parole hearing in April 2026. The victim's family has expressed distress after Kearney was granted day release from prison ahead of that hearing.

    In court, 1 Feb 2026Victim · 1 report

Timeline

every report naming Brighid McLaughlin, newest first

Each entry shows how that report described them.

  1. 4 Mar2026
    Otheririshmirror.ie, in Murderer of Dublin woman granted day release from Wheatfield Prison
    Mother blames her daughter's killer Brian Kearney for her cancer
    victim, Brighid McLaughlin, female, irish (judged from name)Brighid McLaughlin

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