The Garda Kerry Babies apology adds insult to injury

The depth of rage that swept over me this week after gardaí apologised to the woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies tribunal, one of the most shameful episodes in recent Irish legal history, can’t be adequately described, writes Clodagh Finn.

It was, to be fair, a ‘sincere apology’ but when Superintendent Flor Murphy issued it at a press conference at Caherciveen Garda Station on Tuesday, my knuckles clenched white.

We were told new scientific evidence — the development of a full DNA profile — proved, beyond doubt, that Joanne Hayes could not be the mother of a baby boy, known as John, washed up on a beach in 1984.