Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

No doubt they'd be a lot of building sites in and around Dublin city....and it been weekend ...no workers on site either...loads of dumping spots dug out already

Is it the man in France or the one in Dublin who was arrested who is the main suspect?

That's a good point. If she went off somewhere with the suspect, not out of the question she said she was going to Enniskerry and he said he'd drive her there. Although it was a Friday and he was in his early 30s so could have been working. Also could have been off. He setup his company in 1995. I couldn't find any trace of him on LinkedIn.

The brother in France was in his early 40s at the time, so highly probable he had a car at the time.

I would agree with you on the implausibility of burying someone secretly in a suburban setting like this.

Someone from the same street in Clondalkin might know better but in 1993 when Annie was murdered the suspect associated with this house was from a family of seven siblings. Is it that possible neither parents or other family members were around or noticed unusually digging? Maybe he was the youngest and all the older ones had left? If the suspect as suggested on other media platforms was in property management he or they might have had access to a lot of empty houses. Indeed a property company of the same name were the auctioneers for a house 3 doors down in 1996. Maybe there's a few other houses the guards need to dig!

In 1996 a property company of the same name as the suspect, who media say was in that line of business, was involved in the sale of a house 3 doors down on the same road also. Are we to presume his many siblings, judging by the RIP notice were all gone from the house now being searched, and his parents too? Does anyone from the same street have any insights I wonder. In that line of work you would have access to many properties and know which we currently unoccupied.

We don't know if the suspect planned to kill Annie mccarrick or accidentally killed her…I doubt he would have buried her in his family home garden if he had planned to kill her

Don't have to go to the UK there was one in a Galway garden a few years ago.

If ever this case comes to court, I shall be very interested to hear what REALLY happened on the day that Annie went missing.

I had always thought that the last sighting of Annie was where she caught a bus in Ranelagh; it may seem unlikely but the report was by a witness known to her: a woman who actually recognised her. This is the last credible sighting.

All the witness sightings after this were people who did NOT know her - they just thought they remembered "a woman who looked a bit like that missing one that was on Crimeline". Well-meant maybe but nothing like an actual recognition!

I never thought the Fox's pub story seemed remotely likely - everything about that whole narrative was way off kilter.

I do see that the woman on the bus may have been mistaken too - but it's still more believable than any of the subsequent reports. Annie could have got off at Dundrum!

The current intense focus on the ex-boyfriend does seem to be based on some as-yet undisclosed piece of evidence.

Did someone come forward with a sighting of that famous leather shoulder-bag? Some place where it shouldn't have been?

If they make an arrest and actually charge someone, then we can all move forward in our understanding.

Even if he was living in the French Riviera....it wouldn't make any difference to whatever statement he made to investigating gardai…

The reawakening of this case appears to stem from the revelation made by the older brother to the Gardai.The burning question is what did he tell them that lead to the dig up after all these years. It had to be significant. And if nothing emerges from the search is that the end of the investigation?Also, is it unreasonably distressing for Annie's mother to pursue yet another dead end?

There’s people on Gareth O’Callaghan’s page still mentioning Larry Murphy in connection with multiple missing women cases - as recently as two days ago.

I'd say the gardai had this information already more so than him giving them information....more than likely they contradicted what alibi he gave and he couldn't substantiate it

The poster I replied to mentioned he googled where he might live in France

It is yourself and a few others that have been declaring with certainty that the Gardaí know the killers of women from the vanishing triangle. I don`t think they do.

"Are you the last person still stuck on the notion that she headed for Enniskerry the day she disappeared?"

Am I? I dunno. What I do know is that Annie rang her friend Anne O`Dwyer on the morning of 26th and asked her would she like to come walking with her in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains. Anne O Dwyer couldn`t go because she had hurt her foot. Annie was later seen walking down Newgrove Avenue in a direction to where she could have got the number 18 to Ranelagh. The driver remembered her getting on the bus because she ran to stop him She was then seen by Eimear O Grady, (a woman who knew Annie) getting onto the number 44 in Ranelagh and that would have taken her to Enniskerry.

In terms of probability I would say it is very likely that Annie went to Enniskerry and it is very possible that she was the woman seen in Johnnie Fox`s. That doesn`t mean that the current person of interest isn`t responsible for her disappearance. But it does mean that your certainty about this and other cases is undermined by about how poorly informed you seem to be.

Because the suspect in the Gaines case spoke to newspapers on the record, and confirmed that he was the individual arrested and questioned.

Which means he cannot later sue them claiming they breached his privacy or damaged his good name