A prosecution in the case of Baby John, the Kerry Baby? – with Alison O’Reilly

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · Apr 10, 2026 · 21m

42 years after his lifeless body was discovered on White Strand near Cahirciveen, County Kerry, a file has been sent to the DPP in relation to the violent death of an infant known only as Baby John.Irish society was rocked by the discovery of two dead babies in different parts of County Kerry in 1984. One of those babies, named John by the local undertaker, was found with stab wounds on the White Strand in Cahirciveen.Joanne Hayes, from a different part of County Kerry, was wrongly identified as Baby John’s mother by Gardaí and went through a gruelling trial and tribunal, in which she was…