In the News podcast: Will a new call for a State inquiry finally be answered?
Mon Sep 25 2023 - 05:00
The Sallins Train Robbery in 1976 was one of the most audacious criminal acts ever in the State. The Dublin to Cork mail train, carrying £200,000, was robbed with the IRA claiming responsibility, but only after three innocent men had been jailed. The men were tried, convicted and imprisoned as part of a convoluted saga involving the non-jury Special Criminal Court, claims of physical assault, forced confessions and a finding by the court that injuries sustained while in custody by some of the men were self-inflicted.
Patsy McGarry, Irish Times contributor and author of While Justice Slept: Nicky Kelly and the True Story Behind the Sallins Train Robbery, tells In the News the story of the crime and the convictions, and says this call for an inquiry – for the State to investigate itself – is just another in nearly 50 years of such calls; none of which have resulted in action.
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