'Through the briars': How Noel Long came to be on trial for a 40-year-old murder

A series of pure chances, from forestry workers looking for dumped rubbish to a forensic scientist on holiday in West Cork in 1981, led to the conviction of Noel Long for the murder of Nora Sheehan

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