Pardons

Posthumous pardons have been granted to two men who were executed over 140 years ago following wrongful convictions for murder.

A rare posthumous presidential pardon is to be granted to two men convicted and executed in relation to an 1882 murder following research by Dr Niamh Howlin. Sylvester Poff and James Barrett were convicted of the murder of Thomas Browne in October 1882 and executed in January 1883.

A man who was hanged for murder in Cork Prison in 1895 has been pardoned almost 127 years later.