BE IT a sunny or a dark day, the Dublin mountains offer majestic views that are attractive to tourists and locals alike. But the old, winding roads that snake up from the suburbia of Tallaght and Rathfarnham can bring you very quickly into dense forest and desolate and dangerous locations.

The Garda Cold Case Unit has launched a review of the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

The 79-year-old widow Nancy Smyth was strangled in her home in 1987.

An exhumation has begun in Co Clare this morning as gardaí search for new evidence in a five-year-old murder inquiry.

A SPECIAL Garda unit have identified new lines of inquiry in a chief prison officer’s murder 25 years ago.

The family of a woman who vanished from a hospital almost 30 years ago are to press for an inquest into her presumed death, they said today.