Sallins Train Robbery

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A statutory public inquiry into one of Ireland's most famous miscarriages of justice following the 1976 Sallins train robbery would serve "no obvious purpose", the government has said. The so-called 'Sallins Men' — Michael Barrett, Osgur Breatnach, John Fitzpatrick, Nicky Kelly, Brian McNally

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Helen McEntee has yet to make good on a promise to respond to a petition calling for a public inquiry into the case of the 'Sallins Men', who were wrongly accused in connection with the Sallins train robbery in the 1970s. It has been 14 months since the Department of Justice received the petition, w

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The Irish government should establish an inquiry into the abuse suffered by the six men who were wrongly accused in connection with the Sallins train robbery in the 1970s, four human rights organisations have said. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), the Committee on the Administration of

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