A former detective garda yesterday denied he told Marie Farrell gardaí knew Ian Bailey had killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier and needed her to say Mr Bailey was the man she saw near Schull hours before the body was found.

YOU can almost sense the striving for perfection at this Schull, west Cork home-and-property mix. Set out at Cooradarrigan, on the Cork side of the seaside village, it is just a little bit inland of the coastline, within a walk of Schull itself, and its owners have built a ‘look-out’, a little, view-grabbing cabin up on an elevated ridge to grab ocean and island vistas.