"This is a quiet country road, a reserved sort of place - you'd never expect something like this to happen here," said one woman as she peered nervously out from behind her front door less than 300 yards from the scene of Sunday night's shooting.
Like all her neighbours, the woman was reluctant to talk and certainly didn't want to be identified, as residents of the six or so houses at Poulboy, Kilganey, in Co Waterford, suddenly found themselves in the media spotlight.
Some 2½ miles from Clonmel on the back road to Carrick-on-Suir, Kilganey nestles in the shadow of the shoulders of the Comeraghs to the south, with the Suir flowing swiftly eastwards just a field away to the north.
Yesterday, with a strong April sun brightening the valley, the Comeraghs provided a spectacular backdrop. But Kilganey is the most ordinary of rural settings, with modern bungalows interspersed with older cottages.
It is hardly the kind of place that one typically associates with drug murders but the Garda ticker tape and the large fleet of cars belonging to gardaí and journalists squeezed up against the ditch clearly indicated that not even rural idylls are safe from the growing problem of drug crime.
Two uniformed gardaí remained on duty outside the modern dormer bungalow where father of one, Eoin Cahill, was shot close to midnight on Sunday as Garda technical experts and State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy started their work yesterday.
A lone bunch of flowers lay outside the house - a reminder that for somebody another drug-related killing will always be a painful tragedy.
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