Moment families feared comes to pass

All thoughts are with the Gargan and Dunne families as the moment they had long feared has come to pass.

After 30 years, the country’s most notorious prisoner, the man convicted of violently murdering their daughter and charged, but never convicted, of killing their son is back in society.

It was 30 years ago last month that Patrick Connolly, the government’s attorney general, resigned, having been summoned from his holidays in New York by then-taoiseach, Charles J Haughey.