Patrick Quirke has been found guilty of murdering his love rival - local DJ Bobby 'Mr. Moonlight' Ryan, following one of the longest murder trials in the history of the State.

Mary Lowry, the woman at the centre of a love triangle involving the accused and Bobby Ryan, was their most significant witness.

She had an affair with Quirke shortly after her husband died in 2007 and was in a relationship with Mr. Ryan when he went missing in June 2011.

Quirke, a married 50 year old farmer from Breanshamore, Co. Tipperary, wanted her back and the local DJ stood in his way.

He was the one who found Bobby’s body in an underground tank on her land in April 2013.

The prosecution suggested he staged the discovery in an attempt to take control of the situation before someone else found it.

Quirke had motive and opportunity but all of the evidence against him was circumstantial. In the end, the jurors felt it was enough to convict.

He's now facing the mandatory life sentence for murder.

Following the verdict, evidence which had previously been deemed inadmissible in court has since come to light.

This evidence includes details of Google searches carried out by Mr Quirke and sex tapes, filmed on a Nokia phone involving Patrick Quirke and Mary Lowry and separate tapes of Mr Quirke with his wife Imelda.

Today FM's Courts Reporter Frank Greaney has been covering the trial from the beginning and he joined Matt Cooper on The Last Word for a full analysis of today's verdict.

We were also joined by Brenda Power, columnist with the Irish Daily Mail ad Sunday Times, and Conor Hanly, lecturer in law at NUIG and an expert in sentencing and criminal law.