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In 1982, wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur shocked Ireland with a brutal double murder. 40 years later, hes finally breaking his silence in a new book. Author Mark OConnell explains what it was like to receive "the dark gift" of Macarthurs story.

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Forty-one years have passed since Macarthur emerged from the fringes of a driftless Irish gentrified background to commit two brutal killings

The author’s account of the 1982 Dublin murders committed by the wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur deals dazzlingly in moral complexities

RTÉ presenter tries not to take sides, though he doesn’t hide his views during defence debate

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RTÉ presenter tries not to take sides, though he doesn’t hide his views during defence debate

Among Irish people old enough to remember the summer of 1982, Malcolm Macarthur is as close to a household name as it is possible for a murderer to be. Though his name is not surrounded by anything like the miasma of malice and depravity that arise from, say, the name Peter Sutcliffe in the UK or Jeffrey Dahmer in the United States, it carries, in this country, a similar generational weight.

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