Man pleads guilty to murdering brother and sisters

A man who stabbed his younger brother and two sisters hundreds of times before throwing the boy out of a window has pleaded guilty to their murders. Andy Cash killed his 18-year-old sister Lisa Cash and his eight-year-old twin brother and sister, Christy and Chelsea Cawley in Dublin in September 2022. A court heard horrific details of the attack he carried out in home they shared in Rossfield Avenue in Tallaght.

Cash was given three separate life sentences for the murders. A powerful victim impact statement, compiled by the victims' mother Margaret McDonagh and other relatives, was read to Dublin's Central Criminal Court. "Our whole world is gone and there isn't anything that will change it", they said."We will live with this unbearable heartache and pain for the rest of our lives".

Gardaí (Irish police) told the sentencing hearing that in the lead-up to the stabbings, there was a family event to mark the one-year anniversary of a relative's death. Detective Garda Robert Whitty said alcohol was consumed and other family members became uncomfortable with some of the things Andy Cash was saying.

Cash then left the gathering and took a taxi to Rossfield Avenue and went inside the family home while the driver waited in the taxi. The court heard the twins, Chelsea and Christy were asleep in bed while Lisa Cash was watching TV in another room.The taxi driver heard screaming but was unsure where it was coming from.