Everything was ‘normal’ day before business trip
ANDREW Mcginley said he had no inclination that Deirdre Morley would kill their three children and believed she was actually getting better.
He heartbreakingly revealed everything seemed “normal” as he packed up to leave for a business trip on January 23, 2020 — the day before they died.
The dad-of-three recalled: “As I was getting up and getting ready, Carla, whether it was me having my shower that woke her up, but she was coming over the corridor, so I lifted her up and I put her in beside Deirdre in bed.
“Darragh was already in there. He had woken up.”
Mr Mcginley added: “Conor was downstairs, so I went down, I got my stuff together and I was putting on my coat and heading out the door and I turned to Conor and I said ‘I love ya, dude’ and he said ‘I love ya, dad’ and that was that. Normal.”
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He also revealed Deirdre’s mood shifted in a positive way that January and he thought this meant she was getting better — but he has since learned people often get happier when they’ve decided to die by suicide.
He explained: “Despite doing a lot of research on it, I still haven’t gotten the right terminology for it. I feel like what I saw was an act or a show.
“That’s not the right way to describe it but what I saw was all the positive sides.
“What I saw in the medical notes that I got access to, I saw none of that.
“I would have always said that Deirdre Morley was a worrier and that she worried about a lot of stuff.
“No different to other people that I know. My one meeting with the clinician confirmed that.
“When I should have been put on alert, I was put at ease and when I should have been put on guard I was taken off guard.”
He added: “It’s the wrong term but it’s like an act or a show that patients show their loved ones because they don’t want them to know how bad they are.”