Scene of natural beauty reveals terrifying secrets

BE IT a sunny or a dark day, the Dublin mountains offer majestic views that are attractive to tourists and locals alike. But the old, winding roads that snake up from the suburbia of Tallaght and Rathfarnham can bring you very quickly into dense forest and desolate and dangerous locations.

Within 4km of where the partial skeletal remains of Elaine O’Hara were found in the Dublin mountains eight days ago, lie the locations where two women’s bodies were buried in bogland six years apart.

The first such horrific murder was that of Antoinette Smith, a young mother of two who doted on her little girls, Lisa and Rachel. She vanished from Dublin City in Jul 1987, after returning by bus from the David Bowie concert in Slane.