John Sweetman
speaker
13,210 appearances
31 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Sep
John Sweetman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hospital staff who rushed to investigate found that he had used a weapon to take his own life.
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Investigators would later conclude that the attack had been planned long in advance.
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McManus had taken his father's legally held shotgun from the family home in Quidoo, County Roscommon, shortened the barrels and brought it to the hospital.
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His visit to Sarah's house in the early hours of the morning appeared, in retrospect, to have been a final attempt to repair a relationship whose end he could not accept.
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The killings stunned the hospital and the wider region.
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McManus had worked at Sligo General for three years and was widely regarded as a quiet, level-headed young man, popular in the local community and an active member of his GAA club.
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Friends and colleagues struggled to comprehend how a relationship between two young co-workers had ended in such devastating violence.
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For weeks afterwards, the story dominated conversations in kitchens, pubs and shop doorways across the North West.
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In communities stretching from Sligo to Mayo and Donegal, people spoke of little else, trying to make sense of a tragedy that seemed impossible to understand.
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It was the sort of thing people believed happened somewhere else until it happened close to home.
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But as all of that swirled around her and tainted the atmosphere of her hometown, 18-year-old Anne Gillespie's world remained centered on simpler things.
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Home, school, and above all, her mother, the 51-year-old Annie.
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Anne and Annie, the two were inseparable, and could often be seen walking through town arm in arm.
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More than mother and daughter, they were best friends.
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They shopped together, attended mass together, and cycled out to visit Anne's grandmother or spend an afternoon along the wild Donegal coast.
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They were an unusual family in Ballybuffet, with it just being the two of them.
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Annie's first husband died when she was still young.
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Years later, after rebuilding her life, her second husband, Anne's father, suffered a fatal heart attack less than a year after their marriage, when Anne was only three months old.
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But Annie was one of eleven siblings, and the wider family rallied around them.
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Nanny was very house-proud.
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