Anyone remember Dean Lyons?
He was a vulnerable young Dublin man, a drug addict, who was framed by the police for a double murder he didn’t commit. A brutal, ritualistic murder with satanic overtones.
He was jailed for it, and remained in jail for seven more months even after another man committed an identical murder [...]

Do you remember the case of Dean Lyons?
No?
Back in March 1997, two mentally-ill women living in “sheltered housing” in Dublin were murdered in a savage attack during which the killer ritually mutilated their bodies. The crime, which came to be known as the Cannibal Murders, was plainly committed by a madman, and a forensic [...]

A few years ago I was in Italy with a gang from Limerick, and I found myself wandering around the aquarium in Genoa with Charlie Chappie. (We called him that because his grasp of Italian involved holding up the menu in front of the waiter and pointing to something: “I’ll have one of them [...]