John Sweetman
speaker
14,352 appearances
33 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3d ago
John Sweetman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In his homily, Monsignor McDyer spoke of a community struggling to comprehend an unimaginable loss.
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He asked the congregation to pray for Annie and Anne, who had been so grievously struck down in debts that were both unmerited and violent.
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He also requested prayers for the Gallagher family in nearby Lifford, whose lives had likewise been shattered by the tragedy.
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Outside the church, students from Anne's school formed a guard of honor, each carrying a red rose.
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Anne's coffin was borne from the church by her cousins.
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Annie's was carried by her four brothers.
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Hundreds of mourners outside the church joined the funeral cortege to Saint Patrick's Cemetery at Crossroads, and there Annie and Anne were laid to rest in the same grave.
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For the people of Stranerlire and Belly Buffet, the funerals marked neither an ending nor the easing of grief.
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Just five weeks later, the family suffered another loss when Annie's mother, whose broken hip had led to the hospital visit on the night of the murders, died following complications from her injury.
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On the eleventh of july nineteen eighty nine, John Gallagher's trial began at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, before Mr Justice Johnson.
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After ten months in Mountjoy prison and admitting to killing both Annie and Anne, public expectation was that Gallagher would plead guilty.
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To the prosecution, the public, and the Gillespie family, there was no mystery left to solve.
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Gallagher had admitted pulling the trigger.
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He had admitted killing Anne and Annie.
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Most expected a murder conviction and a life sentence.
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But behind the scenes another possibility was emerging.
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Gallagher's legal team were preparing to argue that he had not been criminally responsible for his actions.
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If they succeeded.
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The consequences would stretch far beyond the courtroom.
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Standing in the dock in a navy blue pinstripe suit, John Gallagher entered a plea of not guilty.
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