John Twiss News Today

“Three Irish presidents have been barristers: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson,” writes author and academic Niamh Howlin in her...

POCATELLO — The Portneuf Valley Swim Team has been established for more than five decades, but the team just secured one of its biggest wins in recent years.

A former Royal Marine from Poole has completed a month-long nationwide sea swimming challenge.

A former Royal Marine, battling with cancer for the fourth time, has begun a month-long challenge on Branksome beach to raise money for charity.

Castleisland District Heritage group are campaigning for a posthumous pardon for two Kerry men who they say were wrongly convicted and hanged for murder.Sylvest...

President Michael D. Higgins signed a Presidential Pardon at an event in Áras an Uachtaráin for Mr John Twiss, who was executed in Cork Prison on 9 February…

President Michael D. Higgins signed a posthumous pardon for John Twiss, who was wrongly convicted and executed for the 1895 murder of James Donovan. The decision to recommend a pardon was announced after a full review of the case by the Department of Justice

John Twiss was executed at Cork Prison on basis of ‘flimsy evidence’, report says

The pardon will be the fifth Presidential pardon since 1937 and the third posthumous pardon.

Housing Minister tells readers not to ‘despair’, a bouncy castle tragedy, and NPHET meets today.