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How does naming them interfere with an investigation into a crime from 1996 where the named suspect is deceased? The dead person is never going to stand trial.

How do you see it affecting the investigation?

Maybe it was the other way round without shadowman?

what do you all think of the virgin one interview? His whole life has been affected by this. IF he is innocent it’s very very sad. I think he knows who done it

Sophie said she was going to meet a poet. That's interesting.

He’s definitely an alcoholic and his way of speaking is very like a family member of mine. And makes him come across as a jerk. I would put money on him being drunk here too

Interview is a bit all over the place so far. She's jumping to the negative stories that are in circulation about Bailey for as long as we can remember, he addresses them and then she just goes to her next negative story. If there are follow up questions, they are coming across as overly aggressive.

It was a French man who was involved in the film industry who said she told him about Ian Bailey, it was mentioned in the DPP report from 2001 so can't have been 10 years later. One of Sophie's friends or relatives did say she remembered later Sophie mentioned meeting a poet in Ireland.

Guy Girard said Sophie mentioned she met or was meeting a man called Ian Bailey, Guy said he confused the name with someone else in the French film industry and thought it was someone he knew and she apparently said something like 'no, you can't know him, he lives in Cork in Ireland'. His statement was made before 2001. I'm not sure when though.

Yes, forgot about Guy Girard's statement.

In his statement – seen by the Sunday Independent – Mr Girard said that he first met Ms du Plantier in France six months before her death, when they worked together on a film project.

He said that in November 1996, he discussed with Ms du Plantier including a story about a man "who killed his wife by hitting her with an iron" in a project he was working on.

"We discussed for a long time the theme of human tragedy and during this time Sophie mentioned the name of Eoin Bailey," he said.

"I am sure of this. I thought Sophie was speaking of Edwyn Bally, a French film director, and I indicated this. But Sophie corrected me with a smile saying I could not know who she was talking about because Bailey was a man, a writer, living in Ireland. I am not sure what context Sophie mentioned Bailey, but I got the impression that he (Bailey) was working also on the theme of human tragedy."

He continued: "We did not speak any more about Bailey at this time. I am sure I heard Sophie mention the name Eoin Bailey in the office but I do not know in what context."

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/film-director-is-key-sophie-du-plantier-witness-say-french-authorities-30242064.html

He's well able for Collette he's faced worse. If he didn't have a problem with alcohol he would be sharp as a tack.

I liked the way she described Sophie as attractive/beautiful and he pushed back by saying well beauty is in the eye of the beholder..if he agreed with her and said she was stunning etc the media would be all over a comment like that...

Terrible interview style by the anchor, awful.

the style the interviewer is taking is shocking

Hope it picks up but this has been a genuine terrible interview, Colette Fitzpatrick has been absolutely awful.