Garda murderer to have no automatic entitlement to release

Aaron Brady to remain in jail until at least 57 years old if appeal against conviction fails

Judge bars garda from seeking compensation over fingernail injury

Garda Noel Callan hurt after patrol car door slammed on his finger during arrest

Garda challenges refusal to allow damages claim over fingernail injury

Plaintiff left with disfigured nail after a patrol car door slammed on his little finger

Adams appears to downplay Special Criminal Court abolition

Guerin says Sinn Féin’s proposals for abolition are ‘unrealistic and intimidating’

Legal Opinion: Death of capital punishment does not end law and order

State Papers: Garda killer’s 1985 death sentence commuted

Cabinet thinking on Michael McHugh revealed in Michael Noonan’s memo

Garda murderers freed from jail after three decades

Martin McHugh and Noel Callan shot Sgt Patrick Morrissey dead in Louth in 1985

Court refuses to release man who killed garda in 1985

Michael McHugh shot Sgt Patrick Morrissey in head after Co Louth armed robbery

Man who ‘assassinated’ garda refused temporary release

Michael McHugh has brought High Court challenges against State arising out of his continued detention

Man jailed for killing garda with no argument over issue of common design

The Supreme Court this month ruled that Noel Callan was entitled to remission

Judgment clears path to Callan’s release

Judge Hardiman sharply critical of State’s handling of case

Man serving 40 years for murder of garda ‘entitled to remission’

Noel Callan was convicted in 1985 of killing Sgt Patrick Morrissey during Co Louth robbery

Treatment of man who murdered garda unfair, court told

Noel Callan challenges 40-year term of imprisonment without remission