{"id":181735,"date":"2025-12-08T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181735\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:28:09","slug":"judge-expresses-doubts-over-challenge-by-deirdre-morley-as-part-of-inquest-decision-in-case-of-killing-of-her-three-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181735\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge expresses doubts over challenge by Deirdre Morley as part of inquest decision in case of killing of her three children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Mr Justice Garrett Simons said the High Court could not \u2018micro-manage\u2019 coroner but directed that the application be made on notice to the coroner\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew McGinley, father of\u00a0deceased\u00a0Conor (9), Carla (3) and Darragh (7),\u00a0(pictured) supports Ms Morley\u2019s  challenge\u00a0to the coroner not to call evidence from medical professionals who treated her before the tragic event\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8a6d5b24-1f3b-42cd-8e86-f479b900c7cf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Andrew McGinley, father of\u00a0deceased\u00a0Conor (9), Carla (3) and Darragh (7),\u00a0(pictured) supports Ms Morley\u2019s  challenge\u00a0to the coroner not to call evidence from medical professionals who treated her before the tragic event<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A judge has expressed doubts that Deirdre Morley, the mentally ill mother who killed her three children, can successfully challenge a coroner\u2019s decision to limit the scope of their inquests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Justice Garrett Simons said there were matters within the discretion of the coroner and that the High Court could not \u201cmicro-manage\u201d the Coroner\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Mr Justice Garrett Simons said the High Court could not \u2018micro-manage\u2019 coroner but directed that the application&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91312,89813,61,60,43,9657],"class_list":{"0":"post-181735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-mcginley","9":"tag-deirdre-morley","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-shane-phelan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}