Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said it welcomes the decision by the Professional Footballers Association of Ireland to remove a blog post which linked the Ched Evans rape case to the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six.

A lawyer who suggested convicted rapist Ched Evans could be innocent has defended his views after they were removed from the website on which they were first published.

A lawyer for a body representing footballers has likened convicted rapist Ched Evans to the Guildford Four as a fourth high-profile Sheffield United patron resigned over the ongoing row.

The untimely death of Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted for the Guildford pub bombings, reminds us how important it is that we allow politicians to make representations on behalf of prisoners, be they guilty or not.

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.

Peter Pringle was condemned to death for the murder of two gardaí, but was freed on appeal. In his book he claimed a miscarriage of justice. Not everyone agrees, writes Michael Clifford

OSCAR-NOMINATED actor Pete Postlethwaite has died after a long fight with cancer.

A then 20-year-old man being questioned over the death of Una Lynskey in 1971 was shown a photograph of another suspect “lying in a ditch, dead” by gardaí investigating her killing, a court has heard today.

The mother of a man beaten to death by republicans today broke down as she appealed for justice.

A Donegal father-of-four felt like a member of the Guildford Four after being interrogated about a murder which never happened, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A forensic psychologist whose testimony helped free the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four is to give evidence to the Morris Tribunal this week.

A legal ace who helped to free the Guildford Four could be representing Saddam Hussein in court.

THE garda corruption case in Donegal is on the scale of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, Labour TD Brendan Howlin said yesterday.

Guildford Four member Gerry Conlon today paid an emotional tribute to members of the SDLP for standing by him as he sought to clear his name.

IT has taken the British Government all of 31 years to apologise to members of the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for IRA bomb attacks, but they will derive a large measure of consolation from the fact that when it finally came it amounted to outright exoneration.

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

A member of the Guildford Four was confirmed today as a guest speaker at this weekend’s nationalist SDLP conference.

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.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to ask British Prime Minister Tony Blair next week to apologise to the family of a member of the wrongfully-convicted Guildford Four, it was claimed tonight.

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.

A member of the Guildford Four is to feature in a party election broadcast for the Northern Ireland Assembly today.

Ministers were today urged to “stand up for Irish rights” by sending a legal observer to the Colombian trial of three Irish men accused of training left-wing rebels.

Paul Hill, one of the Guildford Four, has been denied a visa to travel to Colombia to observe the trial of three Irishmen accused of training anti-government rebels.

The Government is being asked to request the halting of the trial of three Irish men who are charged with training FARC rebels in Colombia.