Pensioner who put bomb on bus during Queen’s State visit to Ireland loses appeal focused on Irish language rights
A pensioner who put a bomb on a bus bound for Dublin and made hoax bomb threats during Queen Elizabeth’s State visit to Ireland has lost an appeal against his conviction which focused on Irish language rights.
Lawyers for Dónal Billings (aged 67), whose trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court was heard in both Irish and English, claimed their client’s Irish language rights were “destroyed” during his trial.
