Funeral arrangements for Kieran Quilligan announced

The funeral will take place on Thursday of Kieran Quilligan whose skeletal remains were found in scrubland on the main Midleton to Whitegate Road in Co Cork on January 29.

Two men, aged 26 and 31, appeared before Cork District Court this morning charged with the murder of Mr Quilligan contrary to common law.

The 47 year old, whose death notice on RIP.ie reads as Kieran Quilligan-O’Flynn, is survived by his parents Kathleen and Steven and his siblings Trevor, Karen, Stephen, Roy and Pamela.

He is “sadly missed” by family, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, cousins, godchild, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, relatives and friends.

He will lie in repose at Fordes Funeral Home in South Gate Bridge tomorrow (Feb 7) from 5pm until 6pm.

His requiem mass will take place on Thursday at 3pm at the Church of the Way of the Cross, Togher, with a cremation at the Island Crematorium.

Meanwhile, the remains of Mr Quilligan-O’Flynn were identified after DNA samples from the deceased taken at the postmortem examination were compared to samples given by his family. The samples were compared at the Forensic Science Ireland laboratory in Dublin.

The deceased, who had lived in Togher and Knocknaheeny in Cork city, disappeared on September 1, 2023.

His body was recovered at around noon on January 29 in Rostellan, Co Cork after gardaí carried out a planned search with a cadaver dog.

The badly decomposed remains were taken to the mortuary in Cork University Hospital where a postmortem examination was carried out by assistant state pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster. 

Dr Bolster also visited the scene where the remains were found.