Witness had said something would happen to Cork woman 'with the way she was going on'

The witness thought Mrs Sheehan was "kind of far away from home" as she was used to seeing the mother-of-three near where they both lived.

Noel Long (pictured) has pleaded not guilty to murdering 54-year-old Nora Sheehan between June 6 and June 12, 1981, at an unknown place within the State. File picture: Collins Courts

A witness has told a cold case murder trial that she saw Nora Sheehan waving at cars on the night she went missing 42 years ago and remarked that something would happen to the victim sometime "with the way she was going on".

Noel Long (74) with an address at Maulbawn, Passage West, Co. Cork, has pleaded not guilty to murdering 54-year-old Nora Sheehan between June 6 and June 12, 1981, at an unknown place within the State. Her body was found by forestry workers at The Viewing Point, Shippool Woods in Cork six days after she went missing.