Woman in Kerry Babies case agrees to DNA tests in bid to clear name

JOANNE HAYES, the woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies case in 1984, wants modern technology to clear her name.

Through her solicitor, Ms Hayes says she would be happy to use DNA tests to prove one of two dead babies was hers.

She says DNA samples - not available 20 years ago - would prove she was not the mother of a baby boy, stabbed more than 20 times and discovered on Cahirciveen beach on the evening of Saturday, April 14, 1984.