The family of Nora Sheehan, whose murder in 1981 was finally solved last week, have spoken of their “so gentle and fierce kind” loved one receiving justice after 42 years.
Noel Long, a now 74-year-old from Passage West in Cork, was found guilty last Friday of the murder of Nora Sheehan in 1981.
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