In September of 1989, 19 year old Deirdre Mulcahy was heading out for the night to meet her friends in Midleton, Co Cork. She never returned home. The garda investigation into her killing would last years – the court proceedings, however, would not.
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John Murphy, “Murder to be reconstructed on RTE news” in The Cork Examiner (26 September 1989) p. 5
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DPP v Laffan [1993] 5 JIC 0501