Garda murder probe ‘failed miserably’

MAJOR question marks remain over the garda handling of the probe into the most brutal murders in Irish criminal history.

After more than five years and 20 adjournments, the inquest into the savage Grangegorman murders of Sylvia Shields, 59, and her friend Mary Callinan, 61, finally got underway yesterday.

And what emerged yesterday cast the gardaí into further controversy.