A question of cock-up or cover-up?

MARY Lynch heard about the murder on the nine o’clock news. It said a woman had been beaten to death and gardaí were looking for a 23-year-old man.

The body had been found in a hotel in Limerick. Mary and her husband George were sitting in front of the TV in their home in Kells, Co Meath. Mary felt a chill shoot through her body. She turned to her husband.

“Whatever way it was said, (on the TV), George and me just looked at each other and we knew. I said, ‘that’s McGrath, it has to be’.”