{"id":53533,"date":"2025-09-30T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53533\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:52:08","slug":"man-31-charged-with-murder-of-his-parents-and-brother-in-co-louth-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53533\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (31) charged with murder of his parents and brother in Co Louth \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A man charged with the murder of his parents and brother in Co Louth was remanded in custody following a court appearance on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Robert O\u2019Connor (31) of Drumgowna, Tallanstown, Co Louth is charged with the murder of Louise O\u2019Connor (56), Mark O\u2019Connor (54) and Evan O\u2019Connor (27) at their home in Drumgowna on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sergeant Laura Blanche told a special sitting of Drogheda District Court that the Director of Public Prosecutions had directed the accused be charged with three counts of murder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Robert O'Connor (31) of Drumgowna, Tallanstown, Co Louth who has been charged with the murder of his family members. Photograph: Facebook\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/VDKAEJ6V6VBAVFZVLDV7SGRTXA.PNG\"   width=\"800\" height=\"832\"\/>Robert O&#8217;Connor (31) of Drumgowna, Tallanstown, Co Louth who has been charged with the murder of his family members. Photograph: Facebook <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda Shane O\u2019Malley, who gave evidence of arresting the accused, told Judge Stephanie Coggans that Mr O\u2019Connor had made no reply when charged with each of the offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Coggans said the District Court had no facility to grant bail for a murder charge and remanded the accused in custody to appear by video link at the same court next Monday. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mark O'Connor (centre), Louise O'Connor and their son Evan O'Connor were found dead at their Co Louth home on Monday morning. Photograph: Garda\/PA Wire &#10;\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/YOAKLR3LHKZAJZEFKFY2XEYIPQ.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Mark O&#8217;Connor (centre), Louise O&#8217;Connor and their son Evan O&#8217;Connor were found dead at their Co Louth home on Monday morning. Photograph: Garda\/PA Wire <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Defence solicitor Paul J Moore told Judge Coggans he had spoken to his client\u2019s GP and psychiatrist. He said the accused  had been attending mental health services since he was 22 and he applied for a psychiatric assessment of his client while in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Judge Coggans noted the gravity of the charges and granted Mr O\u2019Connor free legal aid for a solicitor and one counsel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man charged with the murder of his parents and brother in Co Louth was remanded in custody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,38329,38328,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-53533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-robert-oconnor","tag-tallanstown","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53533","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=53533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}