Ros Purcell

Damien was to pick her up sometime in the afternoon.

My mam and my auntie Lily were sitting in the kitchen having a cup of tea.

I was just relaxing on the bed while she was throwing these few things together.

So there was a wedding on up at the church and...

My mam and my auntie Lily rambled up to the church.

So they were standing outside the church, obviously waiting for the bride to come out.

Damien had eventually come along, pulled up outside the cottage.

I heard her going out the door and she said, I'm off, I'll see you.

And I said, bye, I'll see you then when you get back.

So off she went out the door, put the bags in the boot and drove up to come out of Ring's End.

You come around by the church then to leave to do a left.

And my mam and auntie Lily then said, there's my mam, beep.

They beeped the car and my mum and Auntie Lily waved her off.

Have a good time.

And little did my mum know that she was waving her off forever.

We can piece together everything that happened next from statements that all of the friends later gave to Gardaí.

In Damien's statement, he describes how they headed for a nearby hotel bar to meet up with all of their friends.

As Elizabeth, Damien and their gang of friends were getting ready to drive to British Bay, John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans were also on the move.

On their release from prison, they'd spent the last few weeks lying low in feathered County Tipperary.

But on that Saturday evening, they borrowed a car and drove towards Dublin, as Shaw and Evans outlined in the subsequent statements they gave to Gardaí.