{"id":9384,"date":"2025-09-09T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9384\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:33:08","slug":"the-indo-daily-michael-gaine-did-a-great-kindness-lead-to-the-farmers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9384\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: Michael Gaine &#8211; did a \u2018great kindness\u2019 lead to the farmer&#8217;s death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ea695af3-a8b9-46ea-966a-7111fc7b509e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It&#8217;s almost six months since Kerry man Michael \u2018Mike\u2019 Gaine was first reported missing from his farm in Kenmare. The search that followed was one of the biggest in recent history, across thousands of acres and with hundreds of locals, emergency and army personnel taking part. Despite their efforts, they could find no trace of the popular 56-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It would be many weeks before Mr Gaine\u2019s family would get any answers in the baffling disappearance when locals helping to manage his farmland made a gruesome discovery. The partial human remains discovered in a slurry tank on May 16 were soon confirmed to be a DNA match for the missing man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before long, garda\u00ed focused their investigation on the farm itself and a man named Michael Kelley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Kelley, who had been shown a &#8220;great kindness&#8221; by the farmer and who was living and working on his land at the time of his disappearance, was arrested on suspicion of murder and later released without charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In this episode of the Indo Daily, Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan speaks to special correspondent with the Irish Independent Catherine Fegan about her interview with Mr Kelley and \u200ato look back at a tragic story that has gripped the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s almost six months since Kerry man Michael \u2018Mike\u2019 Gaine was first reported missing from his farm in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-9384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}