THE Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected an application by Connemara man John “Demesne” McDonagh, aged 33, to have new evidence included as part of the appeal against his conviction for the murder and rape of schoolgirl Siobhan Hynes in 1998.

A MAN has begun his appeal against his conviction for the murder of a schoolgirl on a remote beach near Carraroe, Co Galway, in December 1998.