Who Killed Una Lynskey? - A True Story of Murder, Vigilante Justice and the Garda ¿Heavy Gang¿

A true story of murder and vengeance, a shattered community and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decades

October 1971. Nineteen-year-old Una Lynskey vanishes near her home in Co. Meath. In the weeks that follow, and on flimsy grounds, garda-dentify three young local men as suspects. Within days of her body being found, one of the three is beaten to death by members of Una-s family.

The entire sequence of events is a tragedy in a quiet rural community - the wrong men jailed, no one ever facing justice - and becomes one of the most notorious failures in Irish policing and judicial history.

In Who Killed Una Lynskey?, award-winning journalist Mick Clifford has built a compelling portrait of the case from interviews with the surviving main players, as well as exclusive access to the files of a private investigator who uncovered information the garda-issed - or ignored.

A timely, humane and compulsive read, this is a ground-breaking