Irish Examiner view: Speculation and suspicion will live on

Death of Ian Bailey

Even in death, Ian Bailey will continue to create headlines, speculation, and controversy. Just as he did in life. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Ian Bailey, the British journalist who collapsed and died after a heart attack on a West Cork street on Sunday, was probably Ireland’s best known, or most notorious, ‘blow-in’, a description that might not have disappointed him.

Although he prided himself on being a pizza cook and a poet, Bailey’s role in the decades-long mystery of the killing of 39-year-old Sophie Toscan du Plantier brought him national and international scrutiny.