Thomas McNally has child-porn convictions quashed

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Thomas McNally had convictions for possessing child pornography quashed by the three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal, which ordered a retrial on one count.

He had been jailed for 18 months in October 2011 after a Longford Circuit Criminal Court jury found him guilty on two counts involving material from February 6th and 7th, 2006. He pleaded not guilty and appealed his conviction and sentence. The proceedings were reported on 28 November 2014.