The funeral will take place on Thursday of 47 year old Kieran Quilligan whose skeletal remains were found in scrubland in East Cork on January 29th last
Two men, aged 26 and 31, appeared before Cork District Court this morning charged with his murder
Kieran Quilligan is survived by his parents Kathleen and Steven and his five siblings
His remains were identified after DNA samples from the deceased taken at the postmortem were compared to samples given by his family.
He had lived in Togher and Knocknaheeny in Cork city, disappeared on September 1st, last year
His body was recovered in Rostellan, East Cork on the 29th of January after gardai carried out a planned search with a cadaver dog.
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.