A 30 year-old man has appeared in court in relation to a knife attack at a house in south Tipperary yesterday in which a 20-year-old woman was killed and her 23-year-old brother was seriously injured.
Kevin Prendergast, a father of two, was brought before Cashel District Court charged with the murder of 20 year-old Joanne Mangan and with assault causing harm to her brother Eddie.
A postmortem was carried out yesterday on the body of 20 year-old Joanne Mangan, who lived in a rented house in the remote Ballymuddagh area near Grange, about seven miles from Clonmel.
It is understood that Ms Mangan and her 23 year-old brother Eddie, who is in a critical condition in hospital, sustained stab wounds.
A sister of the Mangans who had visited the house on Monday night with her boyfriend returned some time after midnight and found Joanne lying on the roadside. She took her by car to hospital in Clonmel, about six miles away, where she was pronounced dead.
Her body was later moved to Limerick Regional for a postmortem to be carried out by Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis.
Eddie Mangan was found injured inside the house and was taken by ambulance to Clonmel hospital, before later being transferred to Cork.
The house was sealed off to allow forensic teams to carry out a technical examination. A kitchen knife was found in a garden behind the house today.