Rónán Mullen (Ind) said events following the death of Fr Niall Molloy in Clara, Co Offaly, 28 years ago amounted to the kind of miscarriage of justice about which we had spent so much time condemning when they had happened in other jurisdictions.

The jailing of innocent people was akin to the absence of a proper investigation and trial in relation to an untimely death, he said. “It seems to me that there is more than a prima facie case that that is the case here.”

The Irish Times – Friday, March 8, 2013