Hey guys just a quick note before the episode kicks off I just wanted to let you know that on the

16th of June I am going to be at a podcasting meetup with the True Crime Club in London. London. It's on the 16th at the Silver Cross pub in Whitehall. It starts at 5 p.m.

and there's going to be a number of podcasts there, Murder Mile Podcast,

right-handed, nothing rhymes with murder, killing it, podcast,

Merse and Monsters is going to be there. A whole bunch of excellent

podcasts we're all going to meet up, say hello to one another and to

listeners, but more importantly, there is going to be a prize draw at that event.

So the prize draw is being organized by the lovely ladies over at Nothing Rimes with Murder and it is to raise funds for end the backlog and

I'm going to put in the show notes the links to end the legal, that we don't fall foul of any gambling laws in any country or state that you might be in.

So basically you just enter the prize draw, do your donation to and the backlog, and you'll be entered into that draw and you could win all sorts of

goodies. There's over 25 true crime podcasts taking part including myself but more importantly the likes of Case File, Generation Y, Insight, True Crime Fan Club,

to name just a few and as I said all the money going to and the backlog so check out the links in the show notes and hopefully I'll see you on the 16th of June

You're listening to the mens rea, and this is the story of the Nally Case. Oh, The dwelling of every citizen is inviable and shall not be forcibly entered save in

accordance with law. Article 40.5, Bonrachten, the Irish Constitution.

Increasingly, over the past number of decades, Ireland has become more centralized,

with the majority of its population focused around Dublin and to a lesser

extent to the cities of Cork and Galway. The countryside has been emptied out of its former residents and communities.

With this, there have been a number of other problems as resources are also directed elsewhere.

Closure of post offices and guard stations and the disappearance of local amenities such as pubs and parish halls that held social events.

As this rural isolation deepened, so did the fear in the small farming communities that were left.

People, mainly elderly people, lived out on their own in isolated houses dotted amongst the fields.

And a startling trend began where they would find themselves targeted for robbery.

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