Peter Mulryan

Garthy wanted to go for a retrial, but Anne didn't think she could take any more.

I know that I emailed DPP and probably, frankly, fucked them to a height.

Of the four victims from the first trial, only Siobhan was willing, or able, to take the stand again.

Detective Inspector Gerry Kelly feared that wouldn't be enough.

Sometimes the DPP will say there isn't enough evidence, we feel, to do it a second time round.

Was that your fear?

Siobhan wrote a letter to the DPP, but it convinced the DPP, and she convinced that they would run again with it.

So I realised there was going to be a retrial.

She rejoined it and said, I'll give evidence a second time around.

It was just Siobhan and Anne now, and the fear of Cook was more real than ever.

Having given evidence in the first trial, James Dillon, the DJ who back in 1978 led the staff walkout from Radio Dublin when Siobhan's allegations first emerged, was called as a witness again.

Cook's retrial began in January 2007.

The book that Cook's defense were presenting in evidence was my book, Radio Radio.

And this was the moment it came back to haunt me.

The passage in question is where I put the allegations of child abuse to Eamon Cook.

which he denied, adding that James Dillon's motivation for leaving was financial, which of course was not true.

So, Eamon Cook was using a story he had told me as evidence of his innocence.

Jerry Kelly watched as Cook tried to worm his way out of the trial in whatever way he could think of.

Same hoo-ha again.

Fought tooth and nail.