Niall Long (33) and Luke Taylor (27) went on trial at a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork earlier this month, charged with the murder of Kieran Quilligan. Mr Quilligan, who was a native of Togher in Cork city, was last seen alive on September 1st, 2023.

Prosecution senior counsel, Donal O’Sullivan, said that the case of the state is that the men killed Mr Quilligan in a “joint enterprise"

DNA samples have been sent to the laboratory of Forensic Science Ireland to see if they match samples provided by relatives of a man who disappeared without trace last year in Cork.

Gardaí found the remains in the east of the county on the main Midleton to Whitegate Road.