A chainsaw found on Michael Gaine’s farm is to be checked to see if it was used to dismember the 56-year-old farmer who gardaí suspect was murdered.
It is not known if other tools or implements found at the site near Moll’s Gap, Kenmare, Co Kerry, are also being sent for forensic analysis.
These are also understood to include an amount of rope found in a toolshed at the back of Mr Gaine’s cattle shed.
There is no indication at all at this stage that the chainsaw was actually used to dismember the farmer, but every potential lead is being examined as gardaí seek to establish how and when the farmer died.
Although they arrested a man Mr Gaine knew the same day his body was found…