The other two men went upstairs where the woman’s two daughters were in their rooms. One girl hid under her bed, while the other ended up climbing out a window onto the roof.

“I didn’t confront Darren, I didn’t lay a finger on him, I was there to support,” Conor O’Brien (24) told gardaí, outlining his actions on the night 30-year-old Darren Quigley received a fatal stab wound to the leg.