Judy Hegarty Lovett is from Monkstown in Co Cork, and is co-artistic director of theatre company Gare St Lazare Ireland.

Innocent people are sometimes jailed for crimes they did not commit, representing an extreme failure of the “fallible” Irish legal system, according to Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Frank Clarke.

Madonna said she will be “honoured” to introduce two members of the campaigning Russian punk band Pussy Riot on stage at an Amnesty International concert next month.

Martin McGuinness will today be briefed on China’s catalogue of human rights abuses.

U2 will be performing Stay via satellite at the Amnesty International 40th anniversary concert on Sunday.