Podcast Corner: New series looks back on the tragic tale of Elizabeth Plunkett
Elizabeth Plunkett's family at her inquest last year.
It’s summer 1976, one of the hottest in memory, and Irish people are heading to the beach every weekend. Among them: 23-year-old Dubliner Elizabeth Plunkett, her boyfriend Damian, and a group of friends bound for Brittas Bay, Co Wicklow, on the last weekend of August.
Elizabeth could be a bit bossy - she read Cosmo and had notions, according to one of her sisters. At a nearby pub, she and Damian have a minor argument, a lovers’ tiff. He recalled: “I put my finger on her left cheek and said, ‘Go away, don’t be annoying me.’ She said, ‘If you do that again, I’ll go home.’ I said to her, ‘Go home, then.’ Stolen Sister narrator Roz Purcell says: “No one could have imagined that what happened next would set in train a series of events that would see Elizabeth’s life being savagely taken from her.”
