Declan Tynan wins miscarriage of justice ruling

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Declan Tynan was granted a certificate of miscarriage of justice by the Court of Appeal, in a ruling reported on 28 July 2023. Justice Patrick McCarthy delivered the judgment. His violent disorder conviction was quashed in April 2018 after he had served 11 months in prison. One report described the sentence as four years, with the final year suspended; another described it as three years. Tynan refused to plead guilty at trial and consistently maintained his innocence. The judges accepted that undisclosed Garda communications could have challenged identification evidence, while rejecting any suggestion of Garda impropriety or collusion.