The unsolved murder of Emer O’Loughlin

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · Nov 11, 2025 · 37m

23 year old Emer O’Loughlin was found dead in a burned-out mobile home in the Burren, Co Clare in April 2005. An inquest into her death last week established – 20 years on - that another person was involved in the young art student’s death.Her sister Pam O’Loughlin has been campaigning for Gardaí to treat Emer’s death as murder since the family learned in 2010 that she had been buried without a cause of death, her case treated as accidental. A forensic examination at that time established that she had been violently killed.23 year old Emer’s last known movements were to borrow a phone charger…