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1. Mr Maher, have you not yet established a GoFundMe page so you have funds to retain a lawyer and – more importantly – a private investigator ?
   It’s time you took a breather from leading the line on this: you have your own health to manage like all of us.
   Just €1 from each person on the GoFundMe page would get things up and running.

   Incidentally, I am astonished that Richard Flynn’s age was quoted in 1985 as 47. This is simply impossible since it would imply that he was born in 1937 or 1938. A trawl through the Connacht Tribune shows him playing for Galwegians and Connacht by 1952 – quite a feat for a 15 year old boy.
   More interestingly it would also have Richard Kearney Flynn getting married to Marie Therese Brennan in 1955 when he would be just 18 . . .

   It is known that Therese Brennan studied at UCG contemporaneously with Ann Devine of Athlone – the woman who later became Mrs Brian Lenihan. Miss Devine (born in 1937) abandoned her medical studies at 19 to be wed. It would appear that Miss Brennan did something likewise with her agriculture studies after meeting a previously USA-bound R.K. Flynn.

   I think a lifelong review of Mr Flynn’s business fortunes would enlighten us as to how minding a small string horses over 7 months for a Cyprus bound Fr Molloy in 1972 duly morphed into a profit-driven business partnership for raising showjumpers and latterly investing in land and residential property.

   In reviewing the overall case of Fr Molloy’s death I asked myself what he might have done otherwise, or avoided doing entirely, during his life that would have avoided this final trajedy.
   I honestly cannot see what he might have done better in 1972 that would have allowed him to maintain his significant and serious involvement with horses but yet kept him clear from the situation he found himself in with the Flynns. We must note the following:

   1. Fr Molloy did nothing clerically or morally wrong in having a hobby training showjumpers.

   2. Fr Molloy did nothing wrong in trying to make his hobby pay for itself, i.e. by selling a couple of trained jumpers every year. Everyone with an expensive hobby, e.g. flying, motor-racing, etc, has to try to do this.

   3. Fr Molloy could not plausibly have approached some other male showjumping trainer and asked him to take his horses for 7 months and maintain the training regimen set out by Fr Molloy – a regimen that would inevitably be different to that practiced by the other trainer. You cannot have two training systems in the same yard and the other trainer would feel affronted by any suggestion that his own training methods were inferior.

   4. The only way Fr Molloy could have his horses trained according to his own regimen would be to hire his own groom, instruct him on the training regimen and have him based in the stables of a friend trusted to ensure the Molloy regimen was honoured. From his acquaintanceship with Mrs Flynn since his teens, Fr Molloy doubtless felt that he could trust her to carry out his wishes.

   5. Fr Molloy could not have known the extent of Richard Flynn’s business woes as all outward appearances suggested that his enterprises were successful and his finances quite liquid. There was no reason therefore for Fr Molloy to fear business inadequacy or embarrassment on the part of his business partner’s husband when comparing any success of his wife’s enterprise with Fr Molloy and that of his own much less profitable car parts chain.

   6. Given the moral temptations of the situation from the Flynns’ point of view, i.e. to exploit Fr Molloy’s desire to keep his name out of the business limelight, to skim some of the profits or inflate some of the expenses of the horse training business to support Flynn businesses, to use profits to reinvest in new ventures, etc, it is hardly surprising that matters between the Flynns and Fr Molloy took the course that they gradually did.

   Naturally, I reject any ‘morality of commercial necessity’ as a justification for murdering Fr Molloy. Though he – perhaps naively – rode out the ambiguous optics of his equestrian activities for two decades, he nonetheless had exposed himself to rumour and innueno in regard to his business relationship with Mrs Flynn. These ambiguities could be gradually exploited by someone with a talent for playing hapless victim of circumstance so as to generate antipathy towards Fr Molloy – for his affluence, his partnering with another man’s wife in conservative times in rural Ireland, his free use of the Flynn family home and yards for his business, etc – by old friends of Mr Flynn.

   I personally believe that one of these old friends of My Flynn’s assisted Mr Flynn in beating Fr Molloy unconscious in the parlour of Kilcoursey House – perhaps after Fr Molloy demanded a dissolution of the partnership with the Flynns and the return of his share of the assets – and subsequently with the moving of the priest’s body to the Flynn’s master bedroom so as to lend it an appearance of a crime of passion.

   Though that friend of Mr Flynn is likely dead by now, I think a trawl of Richard Flynn’s affairs and old friendships would be fruitful in bringing suspects for the killing into focus. It may also be that the Flynn children know much more than they claim on events of that fateful night at Kilcoursey House but have closed ranks in sympathy for their father’s presumed embarrassing position vis-a-vis his own finances compared to those of his wife and Fr Molloy’s.

   TK

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