Ireland’s foreign minister privately told the British home secretary that the controversy surrounding the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four cases was “seriously affecting” the relationship between the two nations, state papers have revealed.

Guildford Four member Paddy Armstrong has welcomed the announcement that inquests into the Guildford bombings are to be resumed after 40 years after a coroner ruled that the public were “entitled” to have the incident explored “untainted”.

"This is not something I want to do but you can only suffer so much and to suffer it for something you didn't do makes the suffering intolerable."

Paddy Armstrong’s account of his wrongful imprisonment as part of the Guildford Four is harrowing. As a politically disengaged teenager of the ’70s, he was always an unlikely IRA man, as Anne Lucey discovers.

The IRA does not bear responsibility for the wrongful incarceration of the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six and others for republican terrorism, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said.

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

Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing, has died aged 60, his family have announced.

A great grandmother wrongly imprisoned for nine years for involvement in IRA bomb attacks received a papal honour yesterday, bestowed upon her by the late Pope John Paul II in one of his final acts.

IT was a long time coming, but when Tony Blair issued the prime ministerial public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for IRA bomb attacks, it exceeded their expectations.

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.

The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven did not carry out the bombings – but who really did remains a mystery to this day.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today publicly apologised to the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974.

Miscarriage of justice victim Gerry Conlon said today it has been harder to clear his name than to get out of prison.

The victims of one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice will travel to the House of Commons today in the hope that Tony Blair will publicly apologise for their wrongful imprisonment.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair could apologise within days over the wrongful imprisonment of father and son Gerry and Guiseppe Conlon for an IRA bomb attack on the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford.