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Thank you to the staff of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Offices and also to the staff of the National Archives. Thank you to Amanda Dully of the Dublin Fire Service Communications
Department.

Thank you to all at
KCLR
, especially Sue Nunn and John Purcell. Thank you to journalist Seán Keane of the
Kilkenny People
and to Padraig Hoare and Ann
Murphy of the
Evening Echo.
Thank you to Alex Hatton of 4
FM
. Thank you to David Harvey and Genevieve Brennan of City Channel for arranging a copy of
Crimeline
programmes from years gone by. At Coco Television, thanks to Stuart Switzer, Linda Cullen and to Ceoladh Sheahan for arranging copies of
Crimecall
programmes from more recent years.

There are many others who by the nature of their assistance must remain anonymous.
Go raibh maith agaibh
one and all.

At Gill & Macmillan, I say thank you to Publishing Director Fergal Tobin, and also to Peter Thew, Deirdre Rennison Kunz, Teresa Daly, Ciara O’Connor, Jen Patton, Nicki Howard and
Antoinette Doddy.

Thank you to all my colleagues in the
RTÉ
Newsroom, especially Crime Correspondent Paul Reynolds and Midlands Correspondent Ciarán Mullooly. Thank you also
to Neil Burke, Ross Byrne, Billy Hanrahan and all in the
RTÉ
News Library and also to Carolyn Fisher and Anne Gill in the
RTÉ
News
Press Office. And a very special thank you to both Ray Purser and Marguerite Sheridan for crucial technical support.

Thank you to my former colleagues in Today
FM
, and thank you as always to my former boss in Midlands Radio 3, Barry Flynn. Thank you to the staff of my two former
schools—St Mark’s Primary and St Mark’s Secondary in Tallaght.

Thank you to my parents Patricia O’Neill and Barry Cummins for their constant support and interest. Thank you also to my brother Mark for his ongoing interest and encouragement.

Finally, thank you to my wife Grace, our daughter Ruby and son Conor for their constant and wonderful support, ideas, motivation, guidance and encouragement, and without whom I could not have
written this book.

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© Barry Cummins 2012
First published by Gill & Macmillan 2012
This ebook edition published by Gill & Macmillan 2012

978 07171 4802 8 (print)
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Cover design by Anú Design (
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)
Cover photograph © Ashley Cooper/Corbis

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The Author

Barry Cummins is a journalist with
RTÉ
and the author of four previous bestsellers:

•
Missing

•
Lifers

•
Unsolved

•
Without Trace

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