New arrest by gardaí in hunt for pensioner’s killers

A MAN in his 20s was arrested in Cork yesterday by gardaí investigating the 1998 murder of pensioner Eddie Fitzmaurice.

Late last month, detectives arrested seven people, all of whom were related, and held them for questioning at garda stations in Galway, Ballina, Swinford and Westport.

These arrests followed vital information being given to the gardaí by a member of the public who contacted them after a fresh public appeal on the case in May, the seventh anniversary of the 83-year-old’s killing.