You have lots of friends and relatives in newsworthy places, don't you, what with your relatives who know the Burkes in Ballina, and now a friend who knows this couple.
Colour me a bit sceptical, tbh.
They should explain the DNA part of it.
In fairness it’s not very credible that the couple would remain anonymous after the arrest and media reports.
Since you ask HeidiHeidi - glad to say I have friends and colleagues in almost every county in Ireland - partly due to my job, partly due to sports and social connections.
am i right in thinking their solicitor posed for a photo on the beach for the irish independent yesterday ??
Looks like that and we have lads on here saying the guards are very bold.
Have they been named?
Not formally named but the names are circulating among locals in Kerry.
If you were able to refute my points you would have, instead you just respond with cheap jokes. You are not adding to the conversation.
I gave specific sources. Have you any sources? Have you read any of the reports from the era? Or the actual testimonies of women involved?
Thanks.... just read that
It would be an interesting test case, and maybe the couple could not be convicted without being DNA tested from a legal perspective, I don't know know, but often you could be 100% sure without testing them. For example if you had tested a grand parent and had ways to rule out any other grand kids, maybe they moved abroad.
You had points that weren’t refuted 35 years ago?
They didn't get off scot free. They got promoted, all four of them.
They were punished by being promoted, all four of them.
They got promoted, all four of them.
Yes it seems ,it is a bit bizare that the Ist the couple knew of any of this was when the knock came to the front door .
Could the guards be wrong again???
Is there more twists to finding baby Johns killer yet to come to light
If the couple are responsible and don't want to admit their guilt they're hardly going to say they spent the last 39 years waiting for a knock on the door.
As was said above, they might not have allowed DNA testing, they might not have even been asked to, but someone related to one of them could have and the link between that and baby John's DNA would have narrowed the focus of the investigation.
Look at Photo 1 and Photo 3
Notice any similarities?
I hadn't seen the photo, but photo 1 is clearly photoshopped.
"Oh boy, the armchair detectives are now here.
Take your stupidity and incompetence elsewhere"
Best ignored, obviously didn't understand the post.
Neither of which is the photo in the Indo.
The one in the Indo specifically says "photographed this weekend"
Solicitor Padraig O'Connell pictured this weekend. Photo: Don Macmonagle
This is the picture
People repeating gossip and hearsay person to person is bad enough. To publicly identify a family on a public forum before charges, if any, are made is disgusting. Not to mention incredibly stupid.
such A scandalous episode for 80s Ireland.
And there's a reason decent gardai called him an utter fool
The infamous Gerry O'Carroll who in 2016 still believed Joanne Hayes had something to do with it and claimed that shoe could have had sex with 2 different men within the same hour and then given birth to twins with different sets of dna.
My guess is he also believes the earth is flat.
He has never apologised for his part in the joanne hayes investigation nor his heavy handed tactics that forced her to make a false confession.
The current gardai should have learnt that in cases like this, things need to be handled in a different manner. It not as if the death was yesterday. Better to bring someone in for questioning than to announce to the world that the arrest is for murder - and then have egg on their faces when released without charge 24 hours later. Rather embarrassing yet again for the gardai.
It's hardly gossip or hearsay at this point.
Baby exhumed, DNA taken, people with matching DNA arrested.
I thought it said they were being questioned in connection with the murder… not for the murder. We don’t know what the story is, charges may yet be made, others may be charged based on what the guards have ascertained from this move. We don’t know. I don’t see any egg on Garda faces. They are doing their job.
Where he is standing is NOT on the White Strand ! That is either Inch or Glenbeigh…I suspect Inch.
DNA is interesting because they can get that from an unsuspecting relative and link it across
They can get it from a database or a relative in a local trawl
The suspects will try to evade the trawl
