How a murdered woman became invisible in the coverage of her death https://t.co/Hv3HCKF9vN pic.twitter.com/esjzEt1PKi
— Will Corry (@slievemore) September 4, 2016
The Guardian reported on Monday that five members of the same family, had been found dead at a house in Co Cavan, Ireland in what police were treating as a case of murder-suicide.
It transpired that a school vice-principal, Alan Hawe, has stabbed his wife, Clodagh, to death along with his three sons – Liam, 13, Niall, 11, and six-year-old Ryan – before killing himself. Clodagh was also a teacher.
Hawe was reported to have left a letter explaining his reasons. But Irish media outlets continued to ask why he had done it, and the nature of the coverage prompted Dublin-based writer, Linnea Dunne, to ask questions of her own in a blog article headlined “Rest in peace, invisible woman.”
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