Aunty May Quinn ( Flynn ) was the oldest member of the Flynn family to reside in Kilcoursey House.
According to her statement she one of the last people to see Fr. Niall alive on the night he met his violent death. She claims to have spoken to him around midnight. He was on his way to bed and had a drink in his hand . Niall suffered from Ulcers and a glass of milk was found beside his bed.
Aunty May clearly states that she was the last person to go to bed that night.
” I went into my room , closed the door and went to bed. I didn’t hear anything else that night ”
Niall was dead by 1:00 in a room along the corridor from May’s room. There was allegedly an argument and a violent struggle. Over the next few hours hysterical Theresa Flynn had to be restrained . Theresa also had to be sedated by a Doctor despite the fact that she had been drinking and had taken a sleeping tablet.
Aunty May didn’t hear anything.
Numerous people arrived in cars from 1:00a.m. and there were a lot of people upstairs to visit the scene of the killing. A priest, Doctor, family members and a number of Gardai were all up and down the stairs during the night and Aunty May didn’t hear anything.
THERE IS NO RECORD OF THE GARDAI SPEAKING TO AUNTY MAY OR ASKING FOR A STATEMENT FROM HER Despite the fact that she had not left the house all day except to go to Mass in the Morning.
Her statement was not included in the “family statements” handed into the Gardai by family Solicitor Liam Lysaght. In fact her statement ( taken later) turned up at the Inquest but there is no record of when this was handed into the Gardai
May read out her statement at the Inquest and when finished was asked by the Coroner to sign it.
Her two signatures look totally different.
Fr. Niall Molloy - Unsolved Murder 1985 