Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am very grateful for that reassurance and I know what it will mean for the family of John Twiss, as well as for people like Johnnie Roche, who has never given up the fight on this along with his many colleagues in the Michael O'Donoghue Memorial Heritage Project in Castleisland. They firmly believe in John Twiss's innocence. Many experts over the years have examined the case in detail and have found there is no possible way this man could have committed the terrible crime that was committed. Let us not forget that there was a victim in James Donovan, who was murdered callously in 1894. However, John Twiss did not do it and that is why justice is really important here. The BBC has featured this documentary on a number of occasions. Based on the precedent set in the Maamtrasna case, I hope a pardon will ultimately be granted here.

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