Executed for a crime he didn't commit — eight decades on, Harry Gleeson's remains are finally laid to rest

Farmer Harry Gleeson was executed on April 23, 1941 for the murder of Moll McCarthy in November 1940. Following a submission from the Irish Innocence Project, he became the first recipient of a posthumous pardon from the State.

More than 80 years after he was executed by the Irish State for a murder he did not commit, Henry (Harry) Gleeson’s remains were removed from an unmarked grave in Mountjoy prison and reinterred today with family in his home county.

A polished wooden coffin bearing Mr Gleeson’s remains stood before mourners at Holycross Abbey, Thurles, at the feet of a statue of Jesus.