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New book aims to shed light on 40 year old unsolved killing

Sep 29, 2022 13:54
By Shannonside News
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New book aims to shed light on 40 year old unsolved killing

Fr Niall Molloy, former parish priest of Cootehill, was killed in July 1985.

A new book hopes to shed new light on the killing of Fr Niall Molloy.

Following on from a recent 2 part RTE documentary, Anatomy of an Injustice - The Killing of Fr Niall Molloy tells the story of the incident and theorises what might have happened in 1985.

The former parish priest of Cootehill, County Roscommon was killed in mysterious circumstances in County Offaly in July 1985.

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Speaking on the Joe Finnegan show, Co-Author of the book, Maresa Fagan says that even today, there are more questions than answers.

"There's so much to this story. It's coming up to 40 years since Fr Niall Molloy was killed and his death remains unsolved. When you lay it all out, there are even more questions today than answers then there were in 1985. It was a different time and a different place then, and that's what we also capture in the book".

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