THREE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH MURDER OF BALLINASLOE WOMAN STILL HELD

Date Published: 22-Sep-2008

Gardai are continuing to question two men and a woman arrested earlier today in connection with the murder of Ballinasloe woman Marie Kilmartin fifteen years ago.The arrests were made in the Portlaoise area, from where 35 year old Marie disappeared in December 1993, close to her home in Beladd.Six months later her body was found hidden in a bog drain almost 20 kilometres away on the Laois-Offaly border. Daughter of Rose and the late Fred Kilmartin, the well-known Ford dealers in Ballinasloe, Gardai said Marie had been strangled.