Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

Is girlfriend or ex of brother of alleged perp:

(1) still alive

(2) in Ireland

?

Rita Fortune.

No idea, but bit of an odd question tbh.

That's not the policy of the State Claims Agency. In general, as the minister said herself, they contest the claims i.e. do not pay compensation.

There is a possibility they will make an exception here but it would definitely be an exception.

I've seen photos of a house that a guy who was involved in crypto crime was living in post search. They effectively demolished it inside looking for a usb drive. House had to be sold.

Cops know who murdered who in this country. Getting evidence and pinning it on the sick fcuks is another story. Jo Jo, Prender, McCarrick,Sinnott, ,breen, Mary Boyle, kerry babies, loads more victims dead and still waiting to be found… a sad oul sod we live on.

If the thompson twins lended the brady bunch a shovle then the gillis would find a plot.

The quotes from the Minister are a bit contrafictory.

It makes specific reference to:

the Gardaí have no legal liability to the property owner for the damage caused in forcing entry to the property in those circumstances. 

That relates to damage to gain entry.

Pointedly it is silent on legal liability wrt damage during searches, negligent or otherwise.

There was renovation work going on, bulider's skips etc. But the search had been pre-planned and had nothing to do with the building work. It's not surprising that people would jump to conclusions.

From today's IT

"Before the search began on Thursday morning, skips with construction waste were seen outside the house as renovation work was under way. However, The Irish Times has established that nothing connected to Ms McCarrick was found during the recent work at the house to prompt the Garda excavation."

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/06/14/annie-mccarrick-search/

What media article was that please ?

Could AGS have been concerned that the building work might destroy or damage evidence so they wanted to get in and search first?

Unlikely To be that considering the entire house has been remodelled since it was sold by the suspects family

what I find ABSOLUTLY baffling is the fact that she was expecting two friends for dinner and went as far as putting her shopping on the table and left there without unpacking. So this leads me to the following two points- and especially in the context of the apparent sighting at Foxes which is MILES AWAY :-

(1) if she was expecting two of her friends for dinner - which was about thanking them for all they had done for her re settling in in Ireland - she would surely have contacted them to say that there was a change of plans eg hse had a bad cold and therefor postpone it. IMO she must have been shortly - and maybe even VERY SHORTLY- kidnapped/attacked after entering her flat with the groceries

(2) in normal circumstances, the VAST MAJORITY of individuals would have the habit of urging the groceries ‘away, as soon as they come in the door of their accommodation - unless a child’s nappy needs to be immediately or whatever. But Annie did not get a chance to do this. She therefor must have been fairly immediately aphrended after she left her purchases on the table

The above begs the question as to why her accommodation was not immediately designated as a crime scene or at least a l’ location of interest ‘ and SEAL IT OFF

This is the same way I feel about the half-eaten breakfast roll, you would finish it off unless you were called away by somebody, maybe urgently. That is another story however.

"No prizes to the media who cooked up a bogus "vanishing triangle"…."

Unfortunately there is nothing bogus about the vanishing triangle. It is a fact that seven young women disappeared in Leinster between `93 and `98. It is also a fact that Larry Murphy was caught in the act attempting to disappear a young woman who was a stranger to him after his pre-planned abduction of her in Carlow town in 2000.

The greatest disservice done to most of these women was the nonsense "vanishing triangle" trying to link all these disappearances together with a bogey man when in fact in the majority of cases the chief suspect was either a partner of known to them.

It always puzzles me how some people can kill in cold blood and then just go back to their lives normally with absolutely no guilt or a bad conscience sometimes for decades before they are finally caught. There must be way more psychopaths in society than we think.