FLORIDA MURDER TRIAL REVEALS GALWAY LINKS

Date Published: 16-Oct-2008

A high profile murder trial in Florida is revealing links with Galway and Connemara.Former FBI officer, John J Connolly - whose father was an emigrant from Moycullen - is facing a murder charge arising directly from his connection with the notorious Boston criminal, James "Whitey" Bulger. Both Bulger and Connolly are natives of South Boston - one of the districts with the largest West of Ireland emigrants in the past.