A garda review is underway into the unsolved murder of a 19-year-old Meath girl, who went missing after stepping off a bus home from work on this day in 1971.
Una Lynskey’s body was found in the Dublin Mountains two months later, but her killer has never been found.
After finishing work in Dublin city on the evening of the 12th of October 1971, Una Lynskey got a bus home with her cousin.
She lived on Porterstown Lane, not far from the village of Ratoath in Co Meath.
After stepping off that bus, she bid farewell to her cousin and was never seen alive again. Her body was found in the Dublin Mountains two months later.
Three men were wrongly accused of being involved, which led to one of them, a local man called Marty Kerrigan, being killed in a suspected revenge attack.
Over fifty years on, The Garda Commissioner has directed that the Serious Crime Review Team carry out a full review of both murders.
Detective Superintendent Des McTiernan has been appointed as the lead officer.
He has urged anyone with information to come forward to any Garda Station, or the Garda Confidential Line.
Any information, no matter how insignificant you might think it is, is important to the review team, which has re-iterated it’s never too late to come forward.
