Not the right thread for this, but close enough.
Not sure what’s to be gained by dragging this up now
Maybe finding the perpetrator of the murder of a new born baby
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I knew of the case but didn’t know the full details. Paschal Sheehy gave a run down of it there. Fuckin hell.
Seems as good a reason as any. It’s a solvable case, because the DNA will, obviously, match the mother which will give you some suspects fairly promptly. Now how they’ll match it to her I don’t know.
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The locals proably know who it is.The perpetrator might even come forward now.
Or the perpetrator might be dead and the mother could come forward
A bizarre case, make you wonder how many dead babies are buried around the place.
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See I knew ye cunts knew who it was.
What happened the girl in Abbeydorney for a finish? Did she stand trial or what?
Caherciveen has the only Church in Ireland named after a lay person. Godless people.
The cops went mental trying to pin everything on her and she ended up walking. There was a tribunal and all after it, they made such a fuck of it.
When the baby was found, people from Abbeydorney went to the cops and said eh, this one was pregnant a few weeks ago and no baby arrived.
Cops called her in, she and her family confessed to killing the baby, they later said under coercion.
Eventually turned out that a baby had died, but not the one they had found on the beach. The one they were talking about was buried on the farm, they claim it died naturally shortly after birth, corners report was unclear. Baby was hers & a local married man and they had no doctors or anything involved, so I suppose that’s open to interpretation. The blood type of the baby on the farm matched Hayes, the other baby didn’t.
The Guards were so convinced they had the right person that they decided that Hayes had become simultaneously pregnant with babies from two different fathers which (while apparently possible) is about as unlikely as it sounds, and for some reason had buried one of the farm and left the other on the beach. They charged her with murder but the case was thrown out.
In a further twist the grave of the Caherciveen baby has been vandalised several times over the years.
The DNA results should clear her of that murder anyway if nothing else
For the 30 somethings…
Don’t mind politics, sport or recession, The Kerry Babies and Ann Lovett cases were THE events in Ireland 1980-1985. The impact on public debate and church rule still matters today.
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Dark days.
Don’t forget Ballinspittle.
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Gave rise the the old classic
“what do you call the sexual position in the back of a mini?
The jeremiah locke”
It seemed even to my young mind at the time that the country was more exercised by the sex outside marriage than the two dead babies.
The investigation by Guards who covered themselves in glory in 1984 will now be reviewed by the present force, who are of course a model of probity and competance.
This should go well.
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Are noreen or her husband about to enter the limelight again?
Indeed. The Kerry babies case was just bizarre and some of the reportage on it was horrible. The Lovatt case was and is an absolute disgrace, a hugely shameful stain on the country. That poor girl.
I hope not