The knock on the door came shortly before 5am. Martin ‘Marty’ Kerrigan’s family had been pacing the floor all night, waiting and hoping for him to come home. All they knew was that he had been dragged into a car by three local men and driven, in a revenge-filled rage, to an unknown location.
A Garda team is reviewing a cold case murder, an associated revenge murder, and potential garda brutality and perjury. But will they investigate one of their own with a legendary reputation, even if they are deceased? Mick Clifford writes