18 Comments

• IrelandNorth | Sep 05, 2012, 08:02 AM EDT

  It's not a hugh leap of [il]logic from concussing a pugilistic opponent to using your wife as a punch bag. Male Traveller culture is primitive and patriarchal, as reported in an Irish Times feature last winter. They get their daughters to drop out of school to keep them submissive and inferior. But Travellers, as the direct descendants of evicted peasant tenant farmers in 16/17/18th century Ireland, (by absentee English landlords who deliberately played families off against each other), carry cumulative emotional scar tissue. Irish Central Stistics Office (CSO) Census of Population, 2011 reported a subpopulation of some 20,000 Travellers in the 26 counties. That has serious socio-economic implications for the state. Although extremely difficult to live beside, (being usually neighbours from hell), they are more to be pitied than scorned. God save their children from such damage.

• deiseblue | Sep 05, 2012, 04:56 AM EDT

  An appalling crime & hopefully the perpetrator will get the severest penalty possible under Irish law. I must admit that calls for the " chair " in some of the comments leaves me cold - I think that most Irish people appreciate the fact that if the death penalty was still in force in the British Isles then the Birmingham 6 & the Guildford 4 would never have lived to prove their innocence.

• merefalow | Sep 04, 2012, 08:06 PM EDT

  wife killers always say that,i didn't mean to kill her,it was just bad judgement in the severity of punishment i administered at the time.if i hadnt have had that last guiness it wouldnt have happened,she would only have been hospitalized and we could have put it down to falling down stairs.jail the b,,,,,,,,, for life.

• GregShox | Sep 04, 2012, 03:20 PM EDT

  Nice work there, ButlerReport. Very impressive the way you slipped in a casually defamatory insinuation without anyone noticing.

• TisEyerish | Sep 04, 2012, 08:11 AM EDT

  May he rot in hell...not only for killing his wife, but for the psychological pain he has inflicted on his children, that they will live with for the rest of their lives. This guy is 33? Look at his face...he looks more like he's 50. That doesn't have anything to do with the story, but I couldn't help but notice how old he looks. My sister's tough-guy husband enjoyed beating her regularly...he was dishonorably discharged from the Marines for refusing to serve in a war zone, but going AWOL instead...twice. That's the caliber of the typical man who beats his wife.

• grayfrier | Sep 03, 2012, 07:53 PM EDT

  As well he should You do not Kill the Mother of your children. As a Wife She has the right to Piss you off but Killing her is so Low class Dude Your Tosted by that I mean if you were In America You'd Be in the Chair dude Tosted and Gone And From my View point you deserved it. Because you broke the first Rule of ManHood Women are4 to be Potectedm at all cost Women are to be Reverierd Woman are granted prevlidges mose do not have Dame it THEY

• butlerreport | Sep 03, 2012, 07:12 PM EDT

  Hubby is always the #1 suspect. Pls take note in the Mauritius case.

• seanmac50 | Sep 03, 2012, 06:46 PM EDT

  There is no excuse for an attack on a defenceless woman. Especially when it is by a trained fighter.

• deirdrekeohane | Sep 03, 2012, 05:31 PM EDT

  God help that poor woman, what a horrific way to die..and the children heard it all. I didn't mean to kill her just punch her up a bit, keep her in line. I hope they throw the book at him. Bastard!

• ballylanger | Sep 03, 2012, 05:07 PM EDT

  At least we now know who he was practising on.

• cillowen | Sep 03, 2012, 03:40 PM EDT

  the justice meted out will be that pleasing to the usual sob sisters of europe. A rap on the knuckles instead of the chair.

• Diamonddille | Sep 03, 2012, 02:21 PM EDT

  Such a Shame. That Pent-up-Emotion destroys more peoples lives. Why didn't someone tell him about investing $20 into buying a Dianetics Book? Heck you get a free Session when you do and that could have easily handle that pent-up-Emotion...

• quinnyxx | Sep 03, 2012, 02:05 PM EDT

  i think alot of people dnt properly understand sicsofrinics sori cant spel it rite but still its an ilness NOT A DESESE people who do these horrible things black out n do not no there doing it n a way the lose control of themselves i really deeply feel for all familys involved n the children but most i feel for micheal hes lost everything n his life n a moment of madness that was not his fault my prayers are wit you micheal becuz i for one understand the inless i hope n time you and your wife will b reunited n heaven but until b strong cuz your not alone xxx my prayers are wit you all n again i dnt feel that micheal is to blame as you red he was n the street screamn witch mean to me that he came bk to himself after his blackout n relised wat had been done i dnt blame him n neither sud other people xxx

• Nicoletta | Sep 03, 2012, 01:28 PM EDT

  Terrible tragedy. God bless and help all involved.

• hunter933 | Sep 03, 2012, 01:18 PM EDT

  Nice guy and nice tattoos.

• thetint | Sep 03, 2012, 12:10 PM EDT

  Has Pavee Point been on to tells us it's their culture?

• handsome68 | Sep 03, 2012, 11:29 AM EDT

  I knew two people who took steroids, both of whom died well before their time. One, Bam Bam Bigelow, was a famous professional wrestler; the other, Bob Daly, was a neighbor, a good man, etc. While I don't know if the accused also took steroids, was on another drug, and/or was intoxicated, I suspect that being hit, especially in the head, too many times results, sooner or later, in erratic behavior. I'm saddened by this story. God help them all.

• Murph46 | Sep 03, 2012, 10:40 AM EDT

  T'is interesting,they never mean to kill once caught!