Peter Pringle was released from prison after 14 years when his life sentence for murder was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1995.

* January 6: Three members of UDR killed by an IRA landmine near Castlewellan, Co Down.

AS our little country feels the bony fingers of the IMF on our shoulder and the cold winds of financial oblivion against our grubby face, we are often lectured – throughout the media – by so-called ‘self-made men’.

JACKSON Way Properties valued their massive compensation claim against the State on the basis that the last section of the M50 motorway cut their lands off from the upmarket Foxrock neighbourhood of south Co Dublin.