Chance meeting with American tourist could answer mystery of skeletal remains

Bones found in Kilfinane in 2006 have finally been tested, but DNA testing of tourist could finally establish whether they are remains of local patriot 'Staker' Wallis

A chance meeting between an American tourist and a local historian in a small Limerick town could answer a 224-year mystery. Pictures: James O'Brien

A chance meeting between an American tourist and a local historian in a small Limerick town could answer a 224-year mystery.

Nebraska woman Lease Tannehill-Neumann is a seventh-generation descendant of Patrick ‘Staker’ Wallis, a United Irishman executed in 1798.