Sophie: A Murder in West Cork - Netflix.

Better than a spell in Mountjoy, a lot of people would argue.

So what's your explanation for this development? Do you think this guy is a spoofer, a fantaist? Or did he drastically misconstrue what JT was saying to him?

Yeah but unlike those long-after 'recollections' of Sophie talking about IB, there's a plausible explanation why 'the cheesemaker' would have sat on this so long.

Why say anything now? What's to be gained?

If he kept quiet for 20 years out of concern for Jules, well, bringing the information out now is worse for her not better. Because it means she has left Bailey and still not said anything, so has no defence to being an accessory.

If the information had come to light 20 years ago, Jules role in it could be presented in a different light as noted above. If he's concerned Bailey might harm Jules, well, this is a guy he now thinks has brutally killed one woman in a drunken frenzy... but had no concerns back in the day Bailey might have another such 'frenzy' towards Jules or some other woman in the community???

Doesn't add up.

I don`t know what all the fuss is about. If mods are not happy with the way people behave they should suspend them. What is the point of closing a thread? The other thread was a worthwhile read in recent weeks with a number of interesting contributors.

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Agree 100%.

It's fairly clear who the offenders are, ban them and let tye rest of us get on with it.

Do Bailey is now saying he was at the kitchen table writing his article and not in the Prairie as previously stated.

Seems suspicious to me.

Poor old Jim Sheridan has lost the plot. Marie Farrell saw a man outside her shop on the Saturday at around the time Sophie was in. She saw the same man hitching a lift on the road early the next morning. She says she saw the same man stumbling along the road near Kealfada bridge around the time of the murder. Apart from the loitering outside the shop, our supposed international man of mystery doesn`t sound very hitmanish now does he?

So Farrell made her initial statement on the 27th I think. In it she says she saw the loiterer on the Saturday and again on the Airhill road the next morning. At the time, she didn`t know Bailey. While Bailey must have been a suspect at this point and they may or may not have established that he was indeed in Schull that Saturday, what the Gardaí didn`t know was that he was also on the Cork road that morning of the Farrell sighting. They only became aware of that little gem in mid January, weeks after Farrell had made her statement and when Bailey came clean after saying initially he had been home that night.

Murphy`s is apparently about 100 meters from the Farrell sighting, Bailey crashed on their couch that night and at least two people who were there say he got up and left for a while before returning again early that morning. The West Cork people actually asked Bailey an interesting question about all of this. They asked him what was his intention that morning, to hitch a lift or walk home? Bailey was given the opportunity to say "I didn`t leave Murphy`s early that morning", but his actual reply was "I don`t know."

There is little doubt in my mind that the man Farrell saw outside her shop on the Saturday and early the next morning was Bailey. What she she came up with afterwards is another matter.

You see the problem is that Marie Farrell cannot be believed on anything she says - she has proven herself to be very untrustworthy.

If she told me today was Monday I would have to make sure.

I mostly agree. But the first statement is reconcilable with Bailey`s known whereabouts on the Saturday and the following morning. She didn`t know him at the time and Gardaí didn`t even know he had spent the night in Murphy`s at the time Farrell made her first statement.

She made a new statement too after identifying a man in a photo that Sheridan showed her. I think he was an associate of Daniel Du Plantier but I`m not sure.

One problem I have with that is that, days later, she apparently did not pick out Ian Bailey in the video taken of the Christmas swim.

There's a lot of seemingly confusing or contradictory aspects about this case.

When things are uncertain we need not only to look for corroboration but also to play devil's advocate and look for contradictions.

Fair enough. But it is hard to get away from the fact that Bailey was in both places at around the same time as Farrell saw her man in black.