Exhumation ‘would resolve’ Kerry Babies case

A retired detective inspector who was involved in the Kerry Babies investigation 30 years ago has called for the exhumation of the remains of both male infants for full DNA analysis.

Gerry O’Carroll still agrees with a prevailing Garda view at the time that Joanne Hayes, the woman at the centre of the saga, had twins, though Judge Kevin Lynch, who conducted the 82-day Kerry Babies Tribunal, concluded she had just one baby.

The issue of twins goes to the heart of the case, which has never been fully resolved.