Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

That is interesting, if correct. If they were questioned under caution I suspect something about their behaviour or actions was causing legitimate grounds for suspicion.

I also wonder if claims in the 'local community' of 'heavy gang' treatment have been exaggerated in relation to this case. 'Heavy gang' treatment to me implies beating a confession out of a suspect. Which I condemn, not least because it has led to false confessions. Being grilled in a cop-shop is no doubt not a pleasant experience, but is not 'heavy gang' treatment.

We have seen claims from some posters that the AGS messed up the case in the early months/years due to not concentrating sufficiently on Annie's social circle. Now we have a poster asserting that they were too heavy handed on the same social circle! AGS can't win, it seems.

A few other interesting things from 'Missing, Presumed', by retired garda Alan Bailey.

Annie stayed with Hilary and Rita for a little while when she arrived back in Ireland in 93.

Annie bought a car and it was parked up in Clondalkin as she was still getting used to driving a manual transmission.

Hilary and Rita picked Nancy up at the airport after Annie went missing, and then drove to Irishtown Garda station to report Annie missing.

https://www.everand.com/read/641537174/Missing-Presumed

It sounds to me that he never actually provided a full alibi as such, just perhaps told the gardai that the brother was in a hotel, not necessarily that he was with him. Or alternatively once they probed whatever statement he made, probably years ago, they realised he only covered a portion of the time, hence the term "fresh evidence".

Either way the following statement:

He insisted to us that he has a “watertight alibi” regarding himself - and that his brother also has nothing to do with Annie’s disappearance.

also would indicate the brother doesn't have an alibi at all, which would be more realistic imo given everything we've seen. No alibi, but no evidence either.

He was a suspect from day one, I’d say,

From the brother;

“Bear in mind he’s been a suspect for 32 years - which is fine.”

Maybe it was Hilary and Rita that rented the family home in clondalkin....it had been mentioned here before the 2 brothers rented the family home... also Hilary's brother could also have lived there with them paying rent

That's true...

Was the house in clondalkin not occupied by the parents/mother up until she passed. From the listing it looks like a home that an elderly person lived in, not a young couple.

Did Annie rent a room from the family when she first moved to Dublin and studied? A lot of student digs type would usually be a room in a house that had a lot of children and some had moved out, so maybe thats how she got to know the brothers

The mothers death notice said "after a long illness.." so she might have been in a nursing home for a long time, possibly even before Annie went missing. Any Monastery Walk neighbours on this thread to confirm?

Current reports say the dig is concentrated on the side area between the front and back gardens. This looks like it was originally a covered over garage/ utility space. Funnily it wasn't photographed for the 2010 sale of the house thats up online but you can get a better idea of the layout from the pictures online of the sale of a neighbours house a few doors down. Don't know anything much about the suspect but he sounds more white collar than blue. Was he really the sort to dig through and then refill concrete? Maybe there was a contractor on site around that time doing work for him, who knows. I think they can forensically date concrete which you'd like to think they did before a major excavation like this to see if there was ground works circa 1993 but maybe thats not available in Ireland.

Didn't say the front garden. The side space between front and back garden as in the neighbours photos attached. This area might not have been radically dug since the new owners came and did major overbuild on the patio area. You'd like to think that patio area is ruled out in that anything buried there would have been uncovered by the foundation and subfloor works the new owners contractors undertook.

Not confident they'll find anything here. Ah well, on to his next property.

"Mother was living in house when AMcC stayed there and for many years afterwards."

When did Annie stay in Monastery walk, and was mother living there in March 1993, do you know?

search over

Nothing found

They bought a demolition company yesterday on site... you'd be thinking another week at least.... finished very abruptly today.

Might have had a warrant with an end date.

No they didn't. It was worth trying.

Did they get a positive hit from the dog before they started the search?