State allows enhanced remission for Ivor Callely after High Court ruling

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The State allowed Ivor Callely enhanced remission after the High Court quashed the Minister for Justice’s refusal and sent the application back for reconsideration. His solicitors confirmed the application had succeeded, and the decision meant he would not have to return to prison to serve the remaining six days of his five-month sentence.

The High Court had found the Minister failed to take all relevant matters into account when refusing enhanced remission. Callely’s separate challenge to the refusal of temporary release was unsuccessful. In a later ruling, the judge ordered the State to pay Callely’s legal costs.