Lyons inquiry - Authorities must act on force failings

It is ironic that on the day that the Garda Commissioner should choose to respond to the Morris reports, another into the case of a man wrongfully charged with the murders of two women was published.

While the Commission of Investigation into the Dean Lyons case found there was no deliberate attempt to undermine his rights, it is impossible to escape the level of ineptitude illustrated in this instance.

Dean Lyons was a homeless drug addict who confessed to the killings of two women at St Brendan’s psychiatric hospital in Grangegorman, in March of 1997.