Conor Feehan

It will be eight years ago next week since a dog walker discovered the body of student Cameron Riley in a field in County Louth.

Hours earlier, the 18-year-old had been part of a group of 15 young people socialising in the area.

Spirits were high, and it seemed like a fun summer's evening in Dun Laoghaire.

But sometime after midnight, something happened that resulted in Cameron's death.

Another local teenager, Aaron Connolly, would eventually be found guilty of murder.

Now though, having spent the last three years in jail, Aaron Connolly's conviction has suddenly been quashed.

I'm Kevin Doyle, and today on the Indo Daily I'm joined by Conor Fian, senior journalist with the Irish Independent, to revisit the case and discuss the latest revelations surrounding the murder of Cameron Reilly.

Conor Fian, we're going to discuss a big development in the case, the murder of Cameron Riley, which happened back in 2018.

But in order to do that, I think it's important for you to bring us back to 2018.

You reported on this case at the time and you told us a lot and you learned a lot at the time around Cameron Riley, his life.

An 18-year-old, remind us of that.

So this didn't seem like an unusual event or anything like that, Conor.

It wasn't for anything in particular.

I suppose it's like all these kind of small towns.

Dullier is, I suppose, essentially a country town in County Loud.

Young people of an evening gather a few drinks.

But friends say that Cameron, while he was there and he partook in whatever crack or fun was taking place, he wasn't a big drinker, wasn't doing drugs, that sort of thing.

Cannabis, I think, was cited.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that there is, and I can imagine this coming from where I'm coming from, there's nothing untoward about this, is what I'm trying to say.

Absolutely not.