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From GSOC themselves:

The missing pages from the Jobs Book when Ian Bailey was identified as a suspect are of grave concern to GSOC. From enquiries conducted by GSOC with members of the McNally Review Team, it would appear that the Jobs Book pages in question may have been removed from the book some time after December 2002 as their absence was not noted during the McNally Review and would have been the subject of comment had they been noticed (the McNally Review Team had access to the original Jobs Books as part of their review and reported in December 2002).

A forensic scientist said pages had been cut out and GSOC accepted this. Those pages, it is more than just likely, contained details of the plan to frame Ian Bailey.

There are many rational, intelligent people interested in finding out the truth. I don't include you among their large number. You persist with excuses for anomalies and discrepancies that simply cannot be dismissed as due to anything but corruption.

Your obvious purpose is to justify state corruption for whatever reason. I have come across similar people elsewhere but I believe that the clamour for the truth is growing and your attempts at deflection and distraction will ultimately fail. In which case you will be completely unconcerned as you are indifferent to any harm you do to people.

This GSOC.......https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/gsoc-has-failed-and-is-not-fit-for-purpose-1.3585708

This GSOC.......https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/lost-five-files-139-statements-and-one-gate-37185350.html

I find it incredible that Bolger, as a fourth party to the conversation, would so defintely remember Person A Sophie being introduced to Person B Ian by Person C Alfie.

He was mostly a bystander.

You just dont remember that kind of detail.

From Google earth timeline the house about 200m up the cul de sac from the junction with the main road was built sometime between 2003 and 2009.

At the time of the murder the nearest neighbours other than Alfie + Shirley would have been on the 'main' road either north towards Dunmanus pier   or south towards Kealfadda Bridge, both about a mile by road.

yes, probably worth a try..if only to clear his name and kill the lingering rumours. Rumours which seem to have been re-ignited recently.

If DNA could be extracted from the residue on Sophie's boot, then it may be possible to eliminate him through familial DNA testing.

For once, I'm in total agreement.

Thanks for that. I would always have thought that the house about 200 meters from Sophie's as well as Alfie and Shirley's house would have been the place where this visually impaired neighbour would have lived who heard the car sometime at night.

The house on the left side, shortly after turning off the main road appears to be new? However not certain. I haven't been to the area in many years, and if I am there, I don't go there, just out of respect.

Things also do change there, if not as quickly as anywhere else. Alfie and Shirley's house seems to have been painted, same as Ian Bailey's "studio" seem to have been enlarged and also painted differently.

Nonsensical reply.

The issue is far broader, far deeper and for more damning that that. As I am sure you are aware.

The entire Bailey investigation is symptomatic of a long standing, toxicity in the organisational culture of the Garda Siochana. And that is reflected in the GSOC report (albeit nice and politely), the DPP report, the comments of the Director himself and, ultimately, the desperate attempt by the government to bring an out of control GS force under some sort of order by bringing in an outsider. It was a de facto admission, by the government, that the decline was terminal without drastic action.

A very public, very painful, slap in the face.

You'd have to wonder why Leo was so forthcoming to protect newspapers from paying out millions to Bailey

No doubt he was compelled by a sense of civic duty.............................