President signs posthumous pardon for John Twiss

John Twiss was wrongly convicted of the 1895 murder of James Donovan, a caretaker on a farm near Newmarket in Co Cork.

It followed an extensive campaign by John Twiss's relatives and the Castleisland District Heritage Group. This afternoon, President Higgins signed a Presidential Pardon for Mr John Twiss, who was executed in February 1895 following a wrongful conviction of murder. It was only the sixth Presidential Pardon to be issued and the third posthumously. Read more at https://t.co/7Mq46tqA6f pic.twitter.com/esdOR1fiSt

"Even before his execution, the Fermoy Town Commissioners wrote to the Lord Lieutenant asking him to exercise his Prerogative of Mercy in a petition accompanied with 40,000 signatures, a very substantial number to collect at that time in rural Ireland," he said.

Better late than never

If the state is offering him a pardon they have taken ownership so let the state pay his descendents compensation a million at least.

The state has plenty of money for running a nursing home in the Aras.

Let the state pay his descendents a million in compensation.

Executed by English Crown for crimes against the Crown...Higgens imagining-up an authority he hasn't got...

Bit late.

Is that the picture from when John was told not to worry, in 126 yrs they will give ya a pardon?

Bet that makes John Twiss feel better 🙄

Bet that makes him feel better

How long it takes to admit there wrong

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