Solicitors have called for a fresh criminal investigation into the alleged “suppression of forensic evidence” in the prosecution of the Guildford Four, more than 40 years ago.

 

To frustrate England, it is imperative to stop Billy Vunipola from making his trademark big carries, writes Donal Lenihan.

England have selected Danny Care at scrum-half and Joe Marler at loosehead prop for Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations match against Scotland.

Eddie Jones is yet to name his first England captain but insists he will pick his “best player” for the role.

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.

The Ireland Under-20s' first ever IRB Junior World Championship semi-final ended in defeat last night as defending champions England proved a class apart in Auckland.

The audience swilled beer, oblivious to the guests, and the set was a makeshift ‘pub’. It could only be Nighthawks, writes Noel Baker.

Jockey Eddie Ahern and five other individuals have been charged with serious breaches of the rules of racing.

FINE GAEL presidential candidate Gay Mitchell has defended his low position in a recent election poll saying he was confident of sweeping up votes outside Dublin.

A BAN on elected officials lobbying judges on behalf of criminals is to be debated in the Oireachtas in the autumn.

A CLEMENCY plea by Gay Mitchell for an anti-abortion fanatic who murdered two people was defended by the Fine Gael presidential candidate last night.

With a gentle tug of his gloved right hand, Discovery astronaut Stephen Robinson removed two pieces of filler material from the shuttle’s underside in an unprecedented space repair job that drew a big sigh of relief from NASA.

Employing the kind of NASA ingenuity used to avert disaster on the Apollo 13 mission, an astronaut prepared for an emergency repair job on Discovery’s exterior today with forceps, scissors and a hacksaw fashioned out of a blade and duct tape.

SHORT strips of filler material dangling from Discovery’s belly had NASA scrambling yesterday to determine whether they might endanger the space shuttle during re-entry.

DISCOVERY’S astronauts started to inspect their spaceship for launch damage yesterday, delicately operating a 100-foot movable arm with lasers and a camera mounted on its tip.

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.

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.

A Florida activist with ties to anti-abortion violence again insisted he was innocent of molesting a 15-year-old girl from Northern Ireland as a judge sentenced him to more than 18 years in prison.

An associate of two men who murdered abortion doctors in the 1990s was convicted of molesting a Northern Ireland teenager at a home he ran for troubled girls and women in the US.

An associate of two men who murdered abortion doctors in the 1990s has gone on trial accused of molesting a teenager from Northern Ireland at a home he ran for troubled girls and women.

Florida

A former US church minister who murdered an abortion doctor and his bodyguard claiming he was trying to save the lives of unborn babies, was executed by lethal injection tonight.

Fine Gael TD Gay Mitchell has called on authorities in the US state of Florida to lift the death sentence imposed on anti-abortion activist Paul Hill.

An unrepentant Paul Hill said on the eve of his execution for the murder of an abortion doctor: “I expect a great reward in heaven.”

A SENIOR Irish diplomat is set to take the witness stand in the Colombian trial of three Irishmen accused of helping to train left wing guerrillas in the use of mortars.

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.

Supporters of the Columbia three are holding a protest outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin later today.

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.

THE IRA is linked to two detailed explosive manuals found in the possession of Marxist rebels in Colombia, a army major yesterday told the trial of three alleged IRA men accused of training the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

The trial opened today of two IRA men and a senior Sinn Fein official who are accused of training Colombian Marxist rebels in terror tactics.

Three alleged IRA members - due to go on trial in Colombia today charged with training anti-government rebels in bomb-making techniques - have refused to leave their cells.

Three alleged IRA members were due to go on trial in Colombia today charged with training anti-government rebels in bomb-making techniques.

Irish politicians and lawyers have arrived in Colombia to observe next week’s trial of three suspected IRA members charged with training left wing rebels.