Six wrongfully imprisoned for Birmingham pub bombings ‘offered nothing but false hope, promises’

The forensic evidence used against the Guildford Four was stronger than the evidence used against a Dublin man accused of a gang murder, a defence barrister told the Central Criminal Court today.

Events of recent days, weeks and months have shown how very important it is to have a reliable and utterly trustworthy justice system.

A great-grandmother who was falsely imprisoned for nine years for an IRA bombing has been awarded a papal medal.

VINCENT BROWNE was utterly indignant on his programme on Tuesday night as he launched into the Irish Times over the column in which Kevin Myers used the term “bastards” in an offensive and distinctly insensitive way.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is under renewed pressure to appoint a victims’ commissioner in the North following his public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

A member of the Guildford Four will meet Bertie Ahern today in an attempt to persuade the British government to apologise publicly for jailing him and his father.