The Kerry Babies: An Irish Scandal
18 August - 1 hour 7 mins
Podcast Series
Lines of Enquiry
On 16th of April 1984, a man jogging on a beach in West Kerry found the body of a newborn baby. The child had been stabbed to death. Nobody knew who his parents were, where he had come from, how he handed up on that beach – and nobody knew his name.
The discovery on the beach would lead to multiple garda investigations and would see a small family from rural County Kerry thrown into the national spotlight. It would become a case centred around staggering claims made against one young woman, and allegations of intimidation and coercion against the country’s leading detectives.
In this episode, John tells us about how the search to solve the case of that baby on the beach in County Kerry w...
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