Call for healing ceremony for pardoned ‘deserters’
The 4,500 solders branded deserters were told in June by Justice Minister Alan Shatter that they were to be pardoned.
In a new BBC radio documentary, Pardon for the Disowned Soldiers, the daughter of 92-year-old Dublin solider Philip Farrington, who helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, said her father was haunted all of his life by the fear of further reprisals after he spent six months in jail in Cork for desertion.
