Georges Bouniel will be remembered at a funeral mass at 10.30am on Monday at the Church of St Eustache in Paris

The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 110 people this year, from entrepreneurs to musicians to journalists. Here is a selection

Garda investigators are liaising closely with Forensic Science Ireland to identify the most advanced DNA testing techniques to use in the case

‘There is an abundance of material implicating Ian Bailey,’ writes Senan Molony, finally unbound by defamation law

Tánaiste said on Thursday night it was hard to understand why evidence against Bailey was not put before a jury

Pierre-Louis Baudey says he has been ‘fighting for 27 years’ for justice but now it is ‘game over’

Chief suspect for murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier had filed an appeal before his death against drug driving and cannabis possession convictions

On a wet, dark Thursday in Schull - days after the chief suspect in Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder had died - many people still had a view on Bailey, even if there is still a sense of trying to say nothing

Ian Bailey, chief suspect in the murder of the French film producer, died from a suspected heart attack in Bantry, Co Cork last week

Recently deceased prime suspect for French woman’s murder always insisted they had never met

Now the only suspect is gone with whatever secrets he had. And he had some, as he hinted in one of the poems he left me

Bertrand Bouniol says death of suspect Ian Bailey has robbed family of possibility of hearing him confess

Some saw him as the victim of a grave injustice. To others he was a violent, misogynistic narcissist, who revelled in the role of victim

The chief suspect for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier died from suspected heart attack on Barrack Street, Bantry on Sunday

Will the truth about her murder now be buried with Ian Bailey, the only suspect?

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Former detective inspector Pat Marry says new investigation team should have been established rather than ‘cold case reviews’ carried out

Criticism of approach of gardaí voiced almost from the start of the investigation, with identification of Ian Bailey as a suspect also dogged by controversy

Although chief suspect for the 1996 killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier is dead, Garda sources say a case file will be sent to DPP for final determination in the case

Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud comments for first time since death of Ian Bailey on Sunday