The principal of the school where 18-year-old Lisa Cash attended spoke to RTE Morning Ireland this morning describing her as an honest person full of integrity.
Kevin Shortall at St Aidan's Community School said Lisa was very highly regarded among the students and teachers at her school.
"All day yesterday people were sending me messages about Lisa,” he said. “Lisa was a quiet, beautiful young girl. Very diligent, hard working, got on well with her work. She was a great support to her friends in times of trouble. I heard that from a number of people yesterday.
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"She is remembered as one of the most honest, genuine young people full of integrity. No fuss, no drama around her. She went about her business. She was highly regarded and warmly remembered by so many staff members here in the school. I couldn’t get over the things that people were saying about her. Just a lovely, lovely person.
“She will be terribly badly missed and she was a lovely big sister to her brothers and sisters. I believe she was babysitting at the time. That would have been something that she was just so good at. She was the kind of person you could trust. That was the kind of person Lisa was.
“The community here is a very close knit community. There will be children walking by a crime scene this morning. A lot of people know the family and regard them so highly…and would have seen the children playing on the street.
“There is going to be trauma and worry in the whole community and a real sense of shock. The schools have to be ready for that today.”
The eight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy and sister Lisa Cash, 18, were allegedly stabbed to death by a 24-year-old man believed to be known to them at their home in Rossfield Avenue in Jobstown, Tallaght, Dublin, early yesterday. The suspected perpetrator of the horrific triple killing is alleged to have stabbed all three victims and thrown the twins out of the top window of the house during a heated confrontation with armed gardai who tried to reason with him from outside the driveway of the home.
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