An inquest in Co Kerry has been told that a woman died after she received 61 stab wounds while her eight-year-old daughter was stabbed 11 times during an attack at their home in Killorglin in June 2013.
Aurimas Andruska, 30, is serving concurrent life sentences for their murders.
Jolanta Lubiene, 27, worked as a cook at St Joseph's Nursing Home in Killorglin. Her eight-year-old daughter Enrika attended primary school locally.
In June 2013, Ms Lubiene was selling her house and preparing to return home permanently to Lithuania, where her father was being treated for cancer.
On Saturday 15 June, she was dropped off in Killorglin at lunchtime by Joan O'Neill, another cook at St Joseph's Nursing Home, who had finished work at the same time as her.
On the following night, a friend, Ramute Narmute, called to Ms Lubiene's home at Langford Downes in Killorglin. She was concerned when she could not get her on the phone.
Through the windows she could see Ms Lubiene's body covered in blood on the kitchen floor. She alerted gardaí, who later found the body of eight-year-old Enrika on the landing.
The inquest heard that post-mortem examinations conducted by pathologist Dr Margot Bolster revealed that Ms Lubiene was stabbed a total of 61 times while Enrika was stabbed 11 times during what was described as a sustained and violent attack with a sharp weapon.
The inquest heard that Dr Hilary Clarke of the Forensic Science Laboratory matched a DNA profile taken from Enrika's top to Lithuanian forestry worker Andruska, who lived at nearby Ardmoniel Heights.
And a finger mark made in Ms Lubiene's blood found by members of the Garda Technical Bureau on a wall going up stairs was also matched to Andruska through a Lithuanian database, with the help of Interpol.
In November 2014, after a five-week trial, a jury convicted Andruska of the two murders. He is serving concurrent life sentences.
His appeal against his convictions was rejected earlier this year by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
Coroner Terence Casey told Jolanta Lubiene's husband Marius and her sister Kristina that everybody wished they would not have to deal with cases as sad as this, and he described the work of the investigating gardaí as excellent.
Garda Superintendent Flor Murphy said he hoped it was a comfort to the family that Andruska was convicted of the double murder and is currently serving life sentences.
The inquest jury returned verdicts of unlawful killing, in accordance with the medical evidence of Dr Bolster.
