Mr Nolan reached the outhouse, climbed a small flight of six stone steps, and went into the loft. “Both men were undressed in the one bed with their throats cut from ear to ear,” reads a report in The Irish Times. “I awoke when I found my throat cut,” Sullivan replied when questioned by the policeman. The men had been to Limerick city the previous day on Mr Nolan’s milk cart, and had returned and went to bed. Nobody saw or heard anything else until Mr Nolan discovered the men the next morning.

Source: The Irish Times October 29, 2018 10:18 UTC