Man arrested by detectives investigating Kenneth Fetherston murder

Detectives investigating the murder of a man who disappeared in Dublin in 2009 have made an arrest.

A man aged in his 40s was detained on suspicion of murdering Kenneth Fetherston after gardai searched a home in the Midlands on Monday.

Mr Fetherston, 26, was reported missing in September 2009. His remains were found at the foot of the Dublin mountains four months later.

He had left his apartment at the Tallaght Cross Hotel in Tallaght shortly before 9am on September 22 and the last known sighting of him alive was at Landy’s Industrial Estate in nearby Knocklyon.

He had been driving a red Honda Civic 93 D 44862 when he went missing and that vehicle was found in a lay-by on the N11 near Gorey in Co Wexford on September 26.

Mr Fetherston’s remains were found close to the Military Road in Rathfarnham on January 31 2010.

In 2020, the Garda Serious Crime Review Team (SCRT), part of the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (GNBCI), started a review and investigation into the circumstances of the murder.

Investigating gardai attached to the SCRT, supported by colleagues from the GNBCI and local Garda, carried out the search and arrest operation on Monday morning.

The man has been detained at a Garda station in the Eastern Region under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.