The Irish Scissor Sisters
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Authors: Mick McCaffrey
For my Mum and Dad
This edition published in 2011 by
Y Books
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HAPTER
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The Aftermath of the Murder
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4
The Garda Investigation
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6
The True Life of Farah Noor
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8
Charlotte’s Confession
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An Awkward Family Reunion
an investigative journalist with the
Sunday World
. He has previously worked as News Editor of the
Sunday Tribune
and Security Editor at both the
Sunday Tribune
and the
Evening Herald
. He has specialised in crime journalism for the last nine years.
The Irish Scissor Sisters
was Mick’s first book and spent several weeks as a No.1 bestseller in 2007. Mick is also the author of the No.1 bestseller
Cocaine Wars: Fat Freddie Thompson and the Crumlin/Drimnagh Feud
, which was adapted for television by TV3 in 2010.
Praise for
The Irish Scissor Sisters
‘This is a unique insight into the underbelly of a “new” Ireland.
Riveting.’
J
OE
D
UFFY
, RTÉ
Praise for
Cocaine Wars
‘Well-researched and authoritative account of a vicious gang war.’
I
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NDEPENDENT
‘An Intimate knowledge of the engagement and a commendable level of research render this account indispensable for interested parties.’
S
UNDAY
B
USINESS
P
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‘An in-depth exposé.’
I
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D
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M
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‘Explosive.’
S
UNDAY
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the members of An Garda Síochána and the legal profession for helping me with the research for this book. I really appreciate all they did for me.
Also thanks to Chenile Keogh and Robert Doran at Y Books, as well as Kieran ‘Consig’ Kelly for his legal advice.
Mick McCaffrey, October 2011
‘It was the most grotesque case of killing that has occurred in my professional lifetime.’
J
USTICE
P
AUL
C
ARNEY
Farah Swaleh Noor on 20 March 2005 was one of the most brutal crimes that Ireland has ever experienced. The fact that the thirty-nine-year-old Kenyan was stabbed over twenty times and beaten over the head with a hammer was shocking enough, but it was what happened to his body that horrified the nation. It sickened even the most experienced murder detectives. Farah Noor was chopped into eight pieces in the bathroom of an inconspicuous flat, close to the centre of Dublin. His body was then transported to the nearby Royal Canal and dumped in a watery grave.