Mountjoy to be dug in search for remains of prisoners 

Harry Gleeson: A search for the remains of the country’s only person to be given a posthumous pardon is to recommence.

Mountjoy Prison is set to be dug up early in the new year, after a team of archaeologists was enlisted to help find the remains of prisoners executed in the jail as far back as 1870.

ARC Forensics Ltd won the contract from the Irish Prison Service (IPS) to conduct the work, with excavations set to begin as “early as possible in 2024”, the IPS said.