Gardai are to carry out a full review of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
The Garda Serious Crime Review Team will conduct the review and then provide recommendations to the local investigation team.
The French film-maker was killed near Skull in west Cork in December in 1996.
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Ian Bailey was convicted in his absence of her murder in a Paris court, but has never been charged in Ireland.
His solicitor, Frank Buttimer, welcomes the new review of the case.
