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Skeleton remains found in Rathfarnham

  • 14-09-2013 08:26PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭


    I hope this is closure for some family. and that if is the result of foul play.. i.e. murder the culprit is caught. Someone might be able to link to the story I cant on my phone.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Jim Figgerty?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Shit, time to go pack I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,608 ✭✭✭✭L1011




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Jaysus. First person I thought of was Philip Cairns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    According to the radio, speculation is that its Annie McCarricks. It's female, it's in the vanishing triangle and near to Johnny Foxes pub where she was last seen. They don't know if its there that long though.

    I do hope it's one of the missing girls. Her family can finally get some closure.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    They must have found my sims house


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭ron jambo


    Jaysus. First person I thought of was Philip Cairns.
    Me too :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Jaysus. First person I thought of was Philip Cairns.

    I hope he is found someday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Muise... wrote: »
    I hope he is found someday.

    That case is particularly sad ... so young . I cant comprehend what the family went through are going through


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Ditto - here...so many people ended up getting one way trips to the mountains and Philip Cairns was who I thought of too. Must be an age thing.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    Love2love wrote: »
    According to the radio, speculation is that its Annie McCarricks. It's female, it's in the vanishing triangle and near to Johnny Foxes pub where she was last seen. They don't know if its there that long though.

    I do hope it's one of the missing girls. Her family can finally get some closure.

    I'm thinking it could be Annie McCarrick too. It's close to where she vanished. Apparently her father died a few years ago his life was destroyed by the grief of not knowing. I hope they finally catch the evil bastard responsible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    That case is particularly sad ... so young . I cant comprehend what the family went through are going through
    As a child at the time, it really drove home the message to me that all those warnings adults gave us about being wary of strangers acting unusual were not without basis.
    Now I know the pendulum has swung too far these days, especially with the ludicrous fear of all men around children, but there is the odd very sick **** out there...
    Ditto - here...so many people ended up getting one way trips to the mountains and Philip Cairns was who I thought of too. Must be an age thing.
    I thought of him because he was from the Rathfarnham area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Love2love wrote: »
    According to the radio, speculation is that its Annie McCarricks. It's female,

    just out of interest....how can they tell if skeletal remains are female??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    fryup wrote: »
    just out of interest....how can they tell if skeletal remains are female??

    the pelvic bone would be different. I think is wider and flatter. stand to be corrected


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter



    I thought of him because he was from the Rathfarnham area.

    With me, its because I was on my first day at secondary school that day as well. Therefore the age thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Ditto - here...so many people ended up getting one way trips to the mountains and Philip Cairns was who I thought of too. Must be an age thing.

    I think he would be in his early 40s now.

    I'd say everyone thought he'd just gone to a friend's house or off for a wander after school. Then as the waiting went on and on, it became big news. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    fryup wrote: »
    just out of interest....how can they tell if skeletal remains are female??

    I think pelvic structure is pretty different male vs female


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    the pelvic bone would be different. I think is wider and flatter. stand to be corrected

    yes - that and height can be a good general gauge.

    I know this from archaeology, and when I read the thread title my first thought was that it was a long dead person in a grave no one knew about. That would be so much better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    It's so eerie to think about how many bodies could potentially be buried up there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    It's so eerie to think about how many bodies could potentially be buried up there.

    Tbh, that one doesn't sound like it was buried.
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/skeletal-remains-found-just-9km-where-annie-mccarrick-was-last-seen-29579478.html


    Now this was mad
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0530/76802-murphym/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    Nodin wrote: »

    It could of been buried, animals etc coulda disturbed the soil whilst trying to get to the body? My theory anyway:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,132 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Brave woman, walking up there at 7.30 at night with her dog. Nothing would make me go there on my own, dog or not.

    I agree with post 20, it is a big graveyard up there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭Woodbrook80


    Would be great if it was that woman that's been missing
    Hopefully someday they will find the other girls eg Deirdre Jacob ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    I hope none of Annie McCarrick's family see that.
    It could be a lot of false hope. Are all of her relatives deceased now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 54,868 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    God knows how many bodies are hidden in the Dublin Mountains. I often wonder if there is any new equipment which could locate these bodies and why the Gardai do not mount a detailed search of the mountains to locate some of them.

    It would help end the pain for some of their families.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    God knows how many bodies are hidden in the Dublin Mountains. I often wonder if there is any new equipment which could locate these bodies and why the Gardai do not mount a detailed search of the mountains to locate some of them.

    It would help end the pain for some of their families.

    I agree, I'd say if this is her, they'll do a complete check though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,608 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I agree, I'd say if this is her, they'll do a complete check though?

    The mountains are far too big to do a complete check on. A body buried even in a shallow grave a few years ago would be completely undetectable from the air and extremely hard to find from a search.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    MYOB wrote: »
    The mountains are far too big to do a complete check on. A body buried even in a shallow grave a few years ago would be completely undetectable from the air and extremely hard to find from a search.

    Yeah I just had a little think about that after I posted


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    God knows how many bodies are hidden in the Dublin Mountains. I often wonder if there is any new equipment which could locate these bodies and why the Gardai do not mount a detailed search of the mountains to locate some of them.

    It would help end the pain for some of their families.

    needle and haystack, unfortunately.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    God knows how many bodies are hidden in the Dublin Mountains. I often wonder if there is any new equipment which could locate these bodies and why the Gardai do not mount a detailed search of the mountains to locate some of them.

    It would help end the pain for some of their families.

    resources would be a factor. forest coverage shrubs would need to be cleared . shrubs anyhow for the scanning machines. they are so small an area would need to be pin pointed and searched. I would think somthing more with tge public getting involved. but with bodies been buried or been dumped so many years ago a needle in a hay stack comes to mind.


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