Noel Long found guilty: Full story of how a conviction over Nora Sheehan’s 1981 death was finally secured
EUROPE On a hot summer’s day in 1981, Garda John B O’Sullivan used his hurley to make a pathway down a steep slope towards the Bandon River at Shippool Woods in Co Cork. Peering through the briars, he could see an area where the grass and overgrowth had previously been flattened. He circled around, keen to avoid disturbing any potential evidence.