State bids to dismiss damages claim by man wrongly convicted of 1980 garda murder

The State has sought dismissal of a damages claim brought by a man whose murder conviction was quashed after he spent nearly fifteen years in prison. The High Court heard that the applicant was convicted in 1980 of the murders of two gardaí during a bank robbery in Ballaghadreen, County Roscommon, and received a death sentence later commuted to forty years imprisonment. His conviction was found unsafe and…