40 years waiting to clear his name

Martin Conmey was 20 years old when he and two others were wrongly accused of killing Una Lynskey, yards from her home near Ratoath, Dublin in 1971. Michael Clifford outlines his long battle for justice and arduous quest for a certificate of miscarriage of justice

THEY found Martin Kerrigan’s body deep in the Dublin mountains, only yards from where Una Lynskey’s body had been found days earlier. He had been abducted near his home, in rural Co Meath, just as Una had.

He was most likely still alive as he was driven the 25 miles from near his home to the spot where his body was found. Una Lynskey had been taken on the same journey, sometime in the preceding two months, dead or alive.