O’Reilly to seek dismissal appeal

Joe O’Reilly is to seek permission from the Supreme Court to appeal an unsuccessful attempt to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice.

In July 2007, O’Reilly was found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury and sentenced to life in jail for the murder of his wife at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin. Rachel O’Reilly’s badly beaten body was found in the bedroom of her home by her mother on October 4, 2004, and in the intervening period, O’Reilly had appeared as a guest on the topic of her death on The Late Late Show.

O’Reilly lost an appeal against his murder conviction and last year an application to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice was dismissed as an “abuse of process” by the Court of Appeal.