The President will sign tomorrow a posthumous presidential pardon to a Kerryman hanged for murder 126 years ago.
In 1895 John Twiss from Cordal was hanged for murdering a man near Newmarket, North Cork. The victim James Donovan had acted as an agent for landlords and had been occupying a house from which tenants had been evicted.
The presidential pardon follows a recommendation from Government based on evidence which indicated that John Twiss was innocent.
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