Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Repatriation of Irish Prisoners in the United Kingdom: Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas

2:40 pm

Photo of Finian McGrathFinian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas to the committee. I commend the organisation for its valuable work. In a previous life, I worked closely with it. I do not know if Nuala Kelly is still around. At the beginning, I worked on cases concerning miscarriages of justice, including the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six in the 1980s. I know the valuable work of the organisation.

The witnesses referred to the immediate need for 15 Irish prisoners to be repatriated.

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