Eimear Rabbitt

And I suppose the nature of his disappearance being so out of the ordinary, I think it was always, I remember doing this podcast with Nicola very

very shortly after his disappearance and there was a little bit of confusion, like could something have, an accident have befallen him?

But because they searched the area so thoroughly, I think from the get-go there was always concern that this is going to be suspicious and that's how it turned out, you know.

Yeah, and the talk had kind of swirled, I suppose, even before the body parts were found, because as you said, it's a very rural area, but that road would have been quite known and there had been appeals looking for information, anyone with dashcam, anyone that would spot a car, like they would all kind of know

Like that traffic, obviously there could be, it's to Kenmare, it's a big tourist spot, but a lot of the traffic would have been probably recognised.

So I think that was another thing that they started to believe that Michael may have not left the farm because there hadn't been any suspicious activity in terms of cars being moved or anything like that.

So I suppose the theory kind of started to swirl that it was someone, you know, who had access to the farm

And maybe something, you know, someone that, and I think that's why there was rumours going around.

And obviously then Michael Kelly was arrested quite, as you said, quite shortly afterwards.

Yeah, well, I suppose, yeah, we don't name, like we have in the past, I suppose, and this has gone off topic now, but just to explain it, we have in the past named somebody when we know that they're probably, this is not in this case, but generally with us, we've kind of only ever named people in the past when we thought that,

You know, we've been told they're going to be charged or when someone has a significant criminal past to kind of warrant them being named.

So that would happen in the gangland cases where someone is already convicted of really serious crimes.

So we think it's OK to name them then because of their reputation.

That's not the case in this one.

But the reason in this one, I suppose, is because he identified himself as a suspect.

So they're the only really cases like if somebody else who, you know, has come forward as a suspect in a case,

unless those circumstances are in play, you wouldn't name them before they appear in court.

But I suppose in this case, Michael Kelly had, I think was the star, she said, approached him first and they asked him for interview.

And we do do that when people are arrested on suspicion of something like this.

We can often...