President grants rare pardon to wrongfully convicted Kerry men executed in 1883

President Michael D Higgins shakes the hand of Sylvester Poff's great-grandson Tomo Burke, after signing a Presidential pardon for Mr Poff and James Barrett at Áras an Uachtaráin

Two men wrongfully convicted and executed for murder in Kerry in 1882 received a rare posthumous presidential pardon from Michael D Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin on Wednesday.

Sylvester Poff and James Barrett were hanged in Tralee Gaol in January 1883 for the murder of Thomas Browne in Dromulton, near Scartaglin.