{"id":455778,"date":"2026-05-19T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:01:14","slug":"two-halves-of-one-person-twins-killed-mothers-partner-after-he-became-abusive-towards-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455778\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Two halves of one person&#8217; \u2013 twins killed mother&#8217;s partner after he became abusive towards her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eric and Sean Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/adbcb7a7-3412-40c5-841d-b85f2a1efbc4.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)\">Eric and Sean Farrell<\/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)\">Twin brothers killed their mother&#8217;s partner by stabbing him eight times and striking him with a blunt object after he became abusive towards her, forcing her to move out of her home to seek refuge, the Central Criminal Court heard today.<\/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)\">The court was told that the admission to manslaughter by brothers Eric and Sean Farrell (21) was accepted on the grounds that both men took part, although Eric told garda\u00ed that only he stabbed the victim and that his brother did not harm him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric and Sean Farrell Twin brothers killed their mother&#8217;s partner by stabbing him eight times and striking him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-455778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455778","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=455778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}