Double murderer's appeal holding up inquest

Alan Cawley, convicted of murdering two elderly brothers in Castlebar in July 2013, had his appeal held up pending legal submissions in early 2019, a delay that was preventing the coroner for Mayo from proceeding with an inquest into the deaths. Cawley, then aged 31, was found guilty by jury at the Central Criminal Court in July 2017 of killing Thomas Blaine, aged 69, and John Blaine, aged 76, at their home on New…