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Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

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  • #2642
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568063#Comment_123568063

    "And why would Annie persuade him to drive her over to her new boyfriend, rather than tell him to **** off?"

    Because, 1993, plus what NoeldeBournaix above.



  • #2643
    padraig1963
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭padraig1963


    If nothing shows up at Monastery Walk I would like to see every property ever associated with this suspect between 1993 and 2011 systematically searched with the cadaver dog. With his old alibi now undermined by his own brother combined with credible accounts of his violence to Annie, he is now without doubt suspect number 1. And his then girlfriend (maybe his wife now) that he was cheating on with Annie, would be a potential suspect number 2.

    And the value in the extensive search at his old family home, even if no remains are found, is that his world is now upturned. What are the bets that the current detectives after his arrest only got 24 hours solid of "no comment". They will have got a lot from this face to face with him even if it was silence.



  • #2644
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568418#Comment_123568418

    Spot on. The purposes of the search may be multifold.



  • #2645
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    Strange. If I feared I was being fitted up by the cops for a murder I had nothing to do with, one thing I wouldn't do would be to delete my rental properties from all websites they were advertised on.



  • #2646
    padraig1963
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭padraig1963


    Thats very true. Or slam down the phone to a reporter when asked his side of the story.

    There was also a golf venue on the wife's side. That could be a long 18 holes for wee Fern.



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  • #2647
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568482#Comment_123568482

    Sounds like wee Fern may have to cancel her holiday plans, but at least PSNI pay good overtime.



  • #2648
    cap.in.hand.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭cap.in.hand.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568418#Comment_123568418

    The suspected violence against Annie by the suspect back then rings very hollow when she was with him in town in pubs the week after st Patrick's day…he may still have a temper but most of us do too



  • #2649
    chooseusername
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568413#Comment_123568413

    Not that it matters but it was 1989 before she went back to the states in 1991.



  • #2650
    mazdamiatamx5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mazdamiatamx5


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568511#Comment_123568511

    Ah ok. But general point I'd stand by, different era, young people, ie people in their twenties, didn't have cars in general, and would grab a lift of someone who did if it saved time. Young people took risks back then that the modern generation probably wouldn't, and vast majority lived to tell the tale. Annie sadly didn't.

    I'm not proud of this, but in the mid 1990s, was drink driving home from the pub/night-club regularly, and because I was one of the few in my group that had a car, was often the designated driver.

    And before that, would have accepted lifts from the few others in the group that had cars and even that I didn't know that well, some of whom were also drink drivers. One of whom now a Senator and another a barrister, but I'll leave that for the memoirs, lol.

    If the fella lost the plot because he found himself voluntarily giving a lift to his ex-girlfriend to her new boyfriend's gaf, then he's a wrong un. Allegedly.

    The whole culture has changed massively since 1989-1993.

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  • #2651
    meat eating green
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭meat eating green


    ridiculous amount of innuendo and posturing on this thread

    Given the constraints of proof for the guards, I am surprised that there are not more vigilante activities against suspects …



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  • #2652
    Xander10
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568418#Comment_123568418

    Can you link one of these "creditable accounts of violence to Annie" ?



  • #2653
    chooseusername
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568418#Comment_123568418

    " With his old alibi now undermined by his own brother "

    That's the assumption a lot of people have been making, but according Sindo today the alibi was busted a few months ago when the person withdrew the statement that the suspect was at a hotel when Annie went missing.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hotel-alibi-for-suspect-in-annie-mccarrick-murder-investigation-has-been-withdrawn/a1942769068.html

    https://archive.ph/M3Tli

    Post edited by chooseusername at


  • #2654
    Crakepottle?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Crakepottle?


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568526#Comment_123568526

    This is so true. A different world back then. Driving with drink was generally accepted. And tobacco! Those smiling nostalgic photos don't display the fact that even non smokers stank of cigarettes after an evening in the pub or a party. I didn't read the Irish Times yesterday but the "effin eejit" quote made me smile because it's just so typically Irish and not generally offensive . So sad for Annie's loved ones and I hope the truth emerges. Likewise for the suspect if he did nothing wrong. His life has no doubt already been overturned and its likely to get worse whether or not there is enough evidence to charge him. The bottom line is that none of us really know.



  • #2655
    juneg
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    Different times for sure. We thought nothing of people cursing like that but maybe an American was horrified by it. Fights and rough behavior was a lot more common especially if you grew up in a house full of siblings you fought your corner. I remember plenty fights and slaps among my own brothers. Nobody batted an eyelid. They weren't all on their phones wrapped in cotton wool in those days like they are now.

    We hitch hiked everywhere as did most of our friends the length and breadth of the country. Coming out from college on a Friday evening there would be a line of hitchhikers on the road going home. No phones no means of contact except write a letter! After poor Jo Jo Dollard though that was the end of the hitchhiking. The era of perceived safety was over.

    You can't apply the norms of today to how we lived in late 80s early 90s. Younger people today would be horrified.



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