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DNA test fails to identify exhumed body
DNA samples taken from a body exhumed in a Co Wexford cemetery in November have come back negative. The DNA, believed to be from a woman aged between 25 and 40, was compared with DNA from the parents of Co Louth woman Priscilla Clarke.
The samples were sent to the Birmingham Forensic Science Service in England for analysis, but the results were delayed because of queries about the accuracy of current DNA testing following the Omagh bomb trial. A Garda source said: "The results came back on Friday and there was no match."
The body of the woman was washed up on Ballinamona Beach in north Wexford in 1995. The family of Ms Clarke (25) hoped the testing would end their 20-year search.
Ms Clarke went missing while horse-riding with her employer Lynda Kavanagh on May 3rd, 1988, at Powerscourt, Co Wicklow. Gardaí believe they were swept away in the river Dargle. Ms Kavanagh's body was found two days later.
SVP centre to honour donor
A publican who bequeathed her €14 million hostelry to the St Vincent de Paul (SVP) charity is to have a resource centre built in her memory in Galway city.
Maureen O'Connell left her Eyre Square pub to the SVP almost a decade ago and it was sold to local developers.
The SVP's Galway branch is to spend just over €1 million of the bequest on developing a centre for elderly people in a listed building which it owns. Up to 35 people will be able to use the centre, which will provide health, educational and computer facilities in Mill Street.
Coast Guard rescue hailed
Tributes have been paid to the Irish Coast Guard's Sligo-based helicopter for its rescue of seven crew from a fishing vessel off north Donegal early yesterday, writes Lorna Siggins.
The Lough Swilly's all- weather and Atlantic 85 lifeboat also participated in the rescue of the crew of a crabber vessel, the 16-metre Horizon, which was swept up on rocks on the south side of Saldanna Head, south of Portsalon Bay.