One of Charles Self’s closest friends has said the last time he saw him is “etched in his mind” more than 40 years later.

In the second episode of Inside the Crime, Bill Maher tells Frank Greaney about meeting Charles for early afternoon drinks in The Bailey on Wednesday January 20th.

He said he often wonders if things would have been different if he had met his friend again later that night as they had loosely arranged.

“He asked me would I go for a pint and I said, 'yeah, I’ll meet you down in the Bailey,' so we met in here," he said.

“We left here when the holy hour came - about 2:30 - and I remember walking up to Dawson Street and he got a bus then and I walked back up to work then and that was the last time I saw him.

“I remember, etched in my mind, it was about 14:50.”

“Now, I loosely arranged to meet him again that night in the Bailey but I didn’t make it.

“I was in fact, across the road in Davy Byrnes and I often regret that I didn’t come across - maybe things would have been different, you know?”

In the second season of Inside the Crime, Frank Greaney examines the brutal murder of Charles Self crime, the controversial investigation that followed and the impact the murder had on Irish society.

Throughout the series, Newstalk.com will be bringing you Deeper Inside The Crime with everything from pictures and video to timelines, crime scene graphics and in-depth articles – and you can find it all here.

Main image shows Charles Self’s good friend Bill Maher at the Bailey in Dublin.