John Sweetman
speaker
14,352 appearances
33 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4d ago
John Sweetman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Columba's was a large mixed school with more than a thousand pupils, but everyone seemed to know Anne, if not by name, then as the girl with the bright red hair.
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Though naturally shy, she was well liked and had a close-knit circle of friends she had known for years.
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Her teachers often joked that Anne and her friends would be the last to settle down in class, and once they did, would spend most of the lesson whispering and laughing.
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Most lunchtimes they spent in a local café, Pat's Pantry, eating plates of chips or tea and scones and chatting to anyone and everyone who passed through the door.
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In the twin towns of Ballybuffet and Stranallar, everyone tended to know everyone, whose child was whose, who'd married in, who'd moved away for work and come home again.
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It was the kind of place where a favour was always repaid and where trouble, when it came, was borne by the whole community.
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There had been plenty of that recently.
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That spring, the shockwaves from a tragedy in neighbouring Sligo travelled quickly across the north-west.
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There had been a murder, a shooting, and it had left a deep mark on the area.
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On the 1st of May 1988, 20-year-old student nurse Sarah Tarpey from Kiltimach, County Mayo, was on duty at Sligo General Hospital.
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She and Cahill McManus, a 20-year-old apprentice fitter employed at the hospital, had met through work and had been in a relationship for some time.
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But six weeks earlier, after returning from a holiday in the Canary Islands, Sarah had ended the relationship.
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In the early hours of that Sunday morning, following a dance in Sligo, McManus called to the house Sarah shared with three other student nurses on Circular Road.
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It was after 3am when he knocked on the door demanding to speak with her.
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Although surprised by the visit, Sarah eventually agreed to meet him in the sitting room.
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The pair talked for almost two hours, from 3am until 5am, discussing the end of their relationship.
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Afterwards, McManus left without incident.
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Sarah's housemates would later recall that she seemed unconcerned by the encounter and had never spoken of being afraid of him.
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They described her as kind and considerate towards her former boyfriend, even after the relationship ended.
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Yet friends had noticed subtle changes in McManus in the weeks since the break-up.
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