Who Says There’s No Justice In Ireland? Man Receives ‘Miscarriage Of Justice’ Ruling Just 50 Years After The Fact

A COURT RULING today is one in the eye for people who cyclically maintain the position that the Irish State has a history of hostility to wronged citizens following the news that a man wrongly accused of carrying out the Sallins train robbery has been vindicated just 50 years after the fact.

Wrongfully convicted in 1978 of the robbery by a non-jury Osgur Breatnach’s confession was found to have been ‘obtained under oppression’ (polite term used to avoid saying corrupt police beating the ever living shite out of innocent men to force a false confession) in 1980, ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ speed has seen Breatnach succeed in having his conviction declared a ‘miscarriage of justice’.

“Just goes to show you, when the Irish state and its security services get something wrong, they don’t hang about when righting their wrongs, swift justice,” confirmed one legal expert, who stated ‘there’s no pleasing some people’ when it was pointed out one of the three men wrongly convicted, Brian McNally, died before receiving similar justice.

“A person wronged, having to pursue this by themselves for 50 years, shaming the State and then taking it court themselves, some 49 years after an Amnesty International report in 1977 stating the police’s ‘Heavy Gang’ was routinely abusing innocent people, show me a country who does this justice stuff better? I’ll wait,” another smugly satisfied defender of the Irish justice system declared.