It may be weeks before authorities are in a position to identify human remains found near Midleton in East Cork, as they await various DNA test results on samples taken from a skull and other bones, the gardaà has said.
However, investigators are confident that the DNA tests taken at post-mortem will help shed light on the person, now believed to be a woman, whose body parts were found near the route of the old Midleton to Youghal rail line.
Gardaà yesterday recovered what are believed to be tibia and fibula bones from the person in further searches of the area which remains cordoned off by gardaà even though it has not been formally declared a crime scene.