‘Cold case’ team to re-examine 10-year-old murder

THE Garda’s unsolved crime unit is to launch a full-scale investigation into the murder of an elderly shopkeeper 10 years ago.

Eddie Fitzmaurice, aged 83, was bound, gagged and beaten during a robbery of his drapery shop and home in the village of Bellaghy, near Charlestown, on the Sligo-Mayo border, in May 1998.

The popular widower was left for dead and was not found for five days. His death shocked the area, and sparked a massive investigation by local gardaí.