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13/11/2009
Murder Victim Died From Head Wound
Gardaí investigating the murder of 78-year-old retired farmer Finbar Fahy have been operating checkpoints on roads in the area throughout the night.
Mr Fahy, who lived alone at Tullira near the village of Ardrahan, Co Galway, was found dead in the living room of his home Wednesday morning.
Gardaí say they still have not established a motive for the killing but it seems likely that he was beaten to death during an attempted robbery.
The results of a post-mortem examination carried out at Galway University Hospital showed that Mr Fahy died from blunt force trauma to the head.
In the North, a man's body in has been found in Lurgan, Co Armagh, and it too is being treated as murder, the police have said.
The man's body was found in a house in the Mansefield area, off the town's Old Portadown Road, at about 8.30pm on Thursday.
Detectives have launched a murder inquiry and a 35-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned.
(BMcC/NS)
Mr Fahy, who lived alone at Tullira near the village of Ardrahan, Co Galway, was found dead in the living room of his home Wednesday morning.
Gardaí say they still have not established a motive for the killing but it seems likely that he was beaten to death during an attempted robbery.
The results of a post-mortem examination carried out at Galway University Hospital showed that Mr Fahy died from blunt force trauma to the head.
In the North, a man's body in has been found in Lurgan, Co Armagh, and it too is being treated as murder, the police have said.
The man's body was found in a house in the Mansefield area, off the town's Old Portadown Road, at about 8.30pm on Thursday.
Detectives have launched a murder inquiry and a 35-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned.
(BMcC/NS)
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