Seven years after his murder, his family want answers
Updated / Friday, 12 Mar 2021
10:29
A field in Co Meath holds horrific memories for a young Dublin woman.
It is at Ballymacan, close to the Louth border, that Marie Gallagher found her brother’s body in July 2014.
Paul Gallagher, a 26-year-old father of one, had been murdered – shot in the back and neck. His body wasn’t found until two days after the killing.
In recent days, Marie travelled back to Ballymacan, to the site of where she found her younger brother’s body. Paul was clearly running, because of the way he was lying here. We all knew he was mid-run, Marie told Prime Time.
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