Minister meets victim’s mother to apologise

BELEAGUERED Junior Minister Tony Killeen yesterday met with the mother of a murdered man to apologise in person for requesting the killer’s early release — but further revelations of requests for early prisoner releases have come to light.

The north Clare minister met with the mother of murder victim Robert Lynch to apologise for his office’s requests for the early release of her son’s killer Christopher Cooney.

After the meeting at Nora Lynch’s house in Kinsale, Co Cork, she said Mr Killeen had been very humble and she described their conversation as fruitful.