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For those who haven’t lived through it, the Ireland of the 1980s was an almost unimaginably different place from today.

Swab samples obtained from arrested man and woman given priority testing status by Forensic Science Ireland laboratory

DNA analysis indicating that a couple were the parents of murdered Baby John led gardaí to make two arrests in the decades-old Kerry Baby case.

We should tell it to new Irish citizens, so they know about the Ireland some would like to bury

I was two years old when Baby John’s body was discovered on the White Strand beach in Cahersiveen. Thirty-nine years later, I’m here, writing about a tragic story that continues to command the nation’s attention.

In 1985, a housewife sat down to write a letter to Joanne Hayes. “I want you to know that a lot of women everywhere are outraged at the way you are being treated,” wrote the woman, who was also a mother . Hayes, just 25 , was being publicly and ruthlessly excoriated at a tribunal ostensibly set up to investigate the garda response to the Kerry Babies case, but had long since become an opportunity to punish a young single mother for all her moral fallibility. The prestige of official ...

DNA analysis indicating that a couple were the parents of murdered Baby John led gardaí to make two arrests in the decades-old Kerry Baby case.

DNA analysis indicating that a couple were the parents of murdered Baby John led gardaí to make two arrests in the decades-old Kerry Baby case.

In an extract from his 2020 book, Niall O'Dowd looks at the shocking history surrounding the murder of "Baby John" in Kerry. Incredible as it seems a man and a woman have been arrested for the death of a newborn baby, known as the Kerry Babies which occurred in April 1984 and created a worldwide sensation.

Baby Johns body was found on White Strand just outside Cahersiveen almost 39 years ago.