Irish Innocence Project: Meet the people who try to right miscarriages of justice

David Langwallner director of the Irish Innocence Project and Anne Driscoll, the organisation’s project manager, talk to Michael Clifford about the project’s work in trying to right miscarriages of justice, where people have been convicted of crimes they did not commit

It’s the stuff of Hollywood. An innocent man — it’s nearly always a man — incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit.

The criminal justice system has cast him as a perpetrator, but in fact he’s a victim. And now, friendless outside the walls of the prison where he rots, he has little hope of proving his innocence, of highlighting how a grievous wrong has been perpetrated on an innocent man. Who you gonna call?