Gardaí decline to reveal reason for O’Reilly exhumation

Gardaí have declined to confirm or deny reports that a note was found inside the coffin of murdered Dublin woman Rachel O'Reilly yesterday.

Mrs O'Reilly's body was exhumed at Balgriffin cemetery in Co Dublin yesterday morning as part of the on-going investigation into her murder last October.

Reports in one newspaper this morning claimed a note was found in an envelope inside the dead woman's coffin and was currently being examined by garda experts.

However, a tabloid newspaper claimed yesterday's exhumation was carried out to take DNA samples

Mrs O'Reilly, a 30-year-old mother-of-two, was beaten to death with a blunt instrument at her home near the village of Naul in Co Dublin on October 4.

Despite several arrests, nobody has ever been charged in connection with the killing.