‘Life with the guards was like something surreal’

It was "a mad time". "It was like she had her normal life and a life with the guards," witness Marie Farrell told the court hearing the civil action by Ian Bailey against the garda commissioner and the state.

“It was “like something surreal” and she told Det Fitzgerald several times she wanted no more to do with it, she said.

Ms Farrell also told the court Det Fitzgerald had introduced her to the late Senator Peter Callanan, who told her that her housing difficulties would be sorted. They later got a council house in Schull, she said.