The Mick Clifford Podcast: Osgur Breatnach and the Sallins Inquiry

The Mick Clifford Podcast: Osgur Breatnach and the Sallins Inquiry

In 1976 the Cork-Dublin mail train was robbed setting off a series of events that led to a major miscarriage of justice. 

Osgur Breatnach was one of three men convicted and later cleared of the robbery. Another was Nicky Kelly, whose case came to international prominence when he went on a hunger strike prior to being released from prison and ultimately pardoned.

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