1985 revisited: Baby’s body on beach in Kerry led to 82-day inquiry

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1985 revisited: Baby’s body on beach in Kerry led to 82-day inquiry

Joanne Hayes in 1985. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

The discovery of a newborn’s body on a beach and a family’s alleged confession they had killed a baby days earlier and put the body into the sea led to the Kerry Babies Tribunal.

The tribunal began sitting in Tralee on January 7, 1985.

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