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	Sallins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sallins (Na Solláin in Irish) is a village in County Kildare, Ireland, situated 3.5 km north of the town of Naas.
		Sallins grew as a result of its position on both the Grand Canal and the main Dublin to Cork/Kerry/Limerick railway line.
		Originally named just "Sallins" (a branch line to Naas at one time diverged from the main line here), the station was closed in 1963 but with the later growth of both Sallins and Naas as Dublin dormitory towns, it was redeveloped and reopened in 1994 as part of the Kildare "Arrow" commuter rail project.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sallins (320 words)

	Sallins Train Robbery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sallins Train Robbery occurred on 31 March 1976 when the Cork to Dublin mail train was robbed near Sallins in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland.
		Four members of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party), Osgur Breatnach, Nicky Kelly, Brian McNally and John Fitzpatrick were arrested in connection with the robbery.
		After the failure of the authorities to produce a "book of evidence" against them, the four were released.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sallins_Train_Robbery (297 words)

	[Sallins Train Robbery] \| [All the best Sallins Train Robbery resources at informationhunting.com] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the 5th, 6th and 7th days of April, 1976, there were in excess of twenty persons arrested under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939, in connection with the robbery of the Sallins mail train which had taken...
		This was all in relation to the by now notorious Sallins mail train robbery, which occured on March 31, 1976 and the subsequent trial of three people, Osgur Breathnach, Brian McNally and Nicky Kelly in connection with that robbery.
		All of Ireland To Vote on DealSallins train robbery in 1976, but the 17 men who carried out the raid never got a penny, according to a new book on the robbery.
	www.informationhunting.com /Miscarriage_of_justice/Sallins_Train_Robbery (594 words)

	Starry Plough: Another Reserved Judgement! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Robbery was publicly claimed by the Provisional IRA earlier this year.
		The Sallins Mail Train Robbery netted over £500,000 in March of 1976 when the Fine Gael-Labour Coalition was in power.
		The politically embarrassing robbery was used by the state as a cover to launch a fl-propaganda campaign against the IRSP in an attempt to smash the registered legal party.
	irsm.org /history/starryplough/reserved_judgement.html (501 words)

	Tales of corruption and intimidation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Osgur Breatnach, one of the three wrongly convicted and sentenced in connection with the Sallins mail train robbery in 1976, said: "I bear witness to torture...
		He was obviously arrested, on false charges, as part of a roundup of 40 people taken into custody in connections with the Sallins Train robbery.
		Over ten of those arrested were subsequently tortured and he spoke of the screams he said he heard in the Bridewell (the Garda station at the rear of the Four Courts) before his turn came to be "tortured".
	www.villagemagazine.ie /article.asp?sid=1&sud=41&aid=790 (1912 words)

	Sallins - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Several hundreth-thousands of Irish pounds where stolen from a Córas Iompair Éireann train.
		Sallins at the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland Web site (http://walks.iwai.ie/grand/sallins.shtml)
		You can find it there under the keyword Sallins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallins)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sallinsandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sallins (330 words)

	AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The two men, both IRSP members, had served 17 months of twelve and nine-year jail sentences for the Sallins mail-train robbery in March 1976.
		Although the court accepted that Breathnach was in illegal custody when the statement was made and also accepted that his repeated demands for a solicitor had been ignored, none of this prevented his conviction.
		The obvious injustice of the Special Court is now highlighted by the reversal of its decisions in the mail train case (the reasons for the reversal have yet to be given by the appeal judges), and there have been calls already for its abolition.
	republican-news.org /archive/2000/June01/01back.html (239 words)

	Truth about Sallins robbery: ThePost.ie
		The IRA received almost £1 million (€1.27 million) from the Sallins train robbery in 1976, but the 17 men who carried out the raid never got a penny, according to a new book on the robbery.
		In an interview with the book’s author, journalist Patsy McGarry, one of the robbery’s main organisers recalled rehearsing the heist for six weeks before it took place, and having to push a white getaway van up a hill in Lucan, Co Dublin, such was the weight of the stolen money.
		In the book, While Justice Slept: The True Story of Nicky Kelly and the Sallins Robbery, McGarry interviewed, for the first time, a number of the people who actually robbed the train.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2006/10/15/story18103.asp (457 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 340 - 16 February, 1983 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Portlaoise Prisoner ...
		Many of those who were in touch with me were themselves apparently approached by a committee, which has alleged that the prisoner was wrongfully convicted and was illtreated by the Garda.
		As Deputies will be aware, the prisoner is serving twelve years' imprisonment having been sentenced in absentia [301] for his part in what is known as the Sallins Train Robbery.
		It was alleged that the prisoner — and others who were subsequently acquitted by the Court of Criminal Appeal — was innocent of the offence and that he — and they — were illtreated by the Garda during questioning to such a degree that untrue admissions of involvement in the robbery were made.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0340/D.0340.198302160007.html (978 words)

	State-Hired Goons and The Grumpy, Authoritarian Ego-Trippers - Indymedia Ireland
		One only has to look at the cases of the Wheelock, Mulhall, Abbeylara, McBrearty families, RTS 2002 along with the Sallins train robbery, the 'Kerry Babies' case and Shercock cases in the past as evidence of a wider, institutional and generational malaise with the Gardai.
		The “Heavy Gang”, which was formed by former Garda Commissioner Ned Garvey, was responsible for the systematic torture, abuse and false prosecutions of Irish citizens, especially anyone with a republican hue about themselves (it was later discovered Garvey had been working for British intelligence).
		In what became know as “The Sallins Train Robbery” 200,00 punt was stolen from the Cork to Dublin mail train, near Sallins in Kildare on 31 March 1976.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/75624?print_page=true (2059 words)

	What is Sallins Mail Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On 31 March 1976, the Cork to Dublin mail train was robbed near Sallins in County Kildare.
		After the failure to produce a book of evidence against them, the four were released.
		He was given a presidential pardon in 1992 and received £750,000 in compensation.
	www.whatis.tv /Sallins_Mail_Train_Robbery.html (228 words)

	Fourthwrite
		Back in 1978 Finn was named repeatedly in court by Nicky Kelly as the main Garda responsible for savagely beating him until he confessed to the Sallins mail train robbery.
		The government refused to hold a public inquiry into the Sallins case and no action was ever taken against the 'Heavy Gang' guards responsible for the beatings, though Kelly and his co-accused were compensated by the State.
		That the truth might be a bit deeper was revealed in a radio interview where McDowell strongly criticised Amnesty for a poster campaign which implicated politicians in racist practises.
	www.fourthwrite.ie /mags1.html (2295 words)

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		On occasion the victim's family, defence witnesses, State witnesses, and all of their supporters are on the same train every day coming up to court and this causes serious problems and opportunities for volatile situations to erupt.
		We support a scheme for Garda liaison officer training, specifically for families of murder victims where one Garda who has adequate training and support and supervision is allowed to become the liaison officer for a family.
		The gardaí would forge better relationships with the families and the communities in which they are working, the witnesses would know what was happening and have one contact to provide a line to the trial, and it would help the families.
	www.irlgov.ie /committees-29/c-justice/20031128-J/Page1.htm (13680 words)

	Bestsellers.ie - broken rails crashes & sabotage - macaongusa b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No matter how slight the damage caused or how few casualties are involved, the very fact that a train leaves the railway tracks and ploughs ahead uncontrolled by any guiding rails, fills the imagination with awe and wonder.
		Sensational headlines appear and people want to know what awful consequences followed, how much worse the accident could have been and, more importantly, why it happened in the first place.
		All have one common feature in that the trains involved came to a sudden and unexpected stop and this led to stories that make for interesting and often fascinating reading.
	www.bestsellers.ie /book-details.php?bookID=15361 (204 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Hundreds expected at anti-corruption meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He has said that he has been inundated with complaints from the public about corruption in the Gardai and other state agencies since he held a public meeting in his family’s pub in Raphoe.
		Other speakers at the meeting will include the brother of Terence Wheelock, who died in September after being found hanging in a Dublin Garda Station, and Osgur Breatnach, who was wrongly imprisoned in connection with the 1976 Sallins Mail train robbery.
		The network has called on people to bring their statements of complaint with them to the public meeting, which is due to begin in the Mansion House in at 1pm.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2005/11/19/story231006.html (239 words)

	Science Fair Projects - An Garda Síochána
		Most of these hold the basic rank of Garda (the equivalent of Constable in British police forces).
		Traditionally the perception of the force within Ireland has been positive; however several scandals have undermined the force.
		This eventually lead to a Presidential Pardon for one of the accused.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Garda_S%EDoch%E1na (1476 words)

	Justice Ireland-Anti Corruption -- Stormont Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		“That is why I am so happy to have people like Nicky Kelly and Osgur Breatnach here on the platform today because they have to suffer injustice all those years ago after the Sallins train robbery and it shows that nothing has changed.
		Osgur Breatnach spoke of his ordeal following his wrongful arrest after the 1976 Sallins train robbery.
		Socialist TD Joe Higgins said political appointments in the state sector had to end.
	www.voy.com /70381/1802.html (1267 words)

	ICCL - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
		While most people are familiar with the names of The Birmingham Six, The Guildford Four, Judith Ward, The Bridgewater Four, it must be remembered that people within this jurisdiction have been wrongly convicted on the basis of disputed "confession" evidence e.g.
		the Sallins Mail Train Robbery and the Lynch case.
		It should always be remembered that the person doing the interviewing in the Garda station is highly trained while the interviewee has no such training.
	www.iol.ie /~iccl/crime.htm (1231 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A protest is underway outside the Republic's Department of Justice against gardai who allegedly abuse their powers.
		The brother of a man who was wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins Train Robbery is spending 12 hours on Dublin`s St Stephen`s Green to highlight the issue.
		Cormac Breatnach said neither the state nor the Gardai have ever apologised for the miscarraige of justice against his brother.
	u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=41735&pt=n (151 words)

	County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups - Current Activities
		The group led by Paddy Behan, Des Connolly and Liam Kenny was treated to an evening of history and local knowledge on Sallins, the railway, the canal, Odlums, Bodenstown, and many other features of the locality.
		The walk began in the railway station and recalled many memories of the golden age of rail in Sallins.
		As you can expect there was some difficulty getting everybody up from their cosy chairs to get out when the rain cleared but the gathering regrouped and continued to the canal bridge where the role of Sallins in the coming of the canal in 1780 was recalled.
	kildare.ie /Local-History/News/view-details.asp?NewsID=108 (270 words)

	Irish News - Irish Independent Online - Sunday Independent , Irish newspapers, News Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		FIREFIGHTERS at one of the country's busiest stations are threatening an all-out strike in protest at the lack of basic training, including first aid.
		THE independent backbench TD Tom Gildea says he is being "shunned" by Fine Gael and Labour members in the wake of his unprovoked attack on Nora Owen.
		THE man wrongly imprisoned for the Sallins train robbery, Nicky Kelly, was yesterday selected to run for the Labour Party in Wicklow in the forthcoming general election.
	www.unison.ie /irish_independent/index.php3?ca=9&issue_id=6490 (1132 words)

	Microsoft Word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some prominent Sinn FÃ©in members (including Martin Ferris and Martin McGuinness) have been convicted of offences by it.
		Most famous is the case of Nicky Kelly, who was convicted along with two other men by the Special Criminal Court in 1978 of carrying out the Sallins Train Robbery.
		All three convictions were later overturned after it was found that the suspects had been assaulted by gardaÃ while in custody.
	www.workfriendly.net /browse/Office2003Blue/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Criminal_Court (1500 words)

	Irish Anarchist News No 11. Oct. 1996 - Bail referendum - Water Charges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The gardai should not be given more powers.
		We have seen what they can do with the powers they already have: the refusal to investigate child sex abuse charges against priests and nuns until recent years, the Tallaght Two, the Sallins train robbery, Peter Pringle, the Kerry Babies case.
		This summer a murder trial in Cork (Frederick Flannery) had to be abandoned when it was revealed that the gardai had hidden vital evidence from the defence.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/a_news/an11.html (1273 words)

	<1169 And Counting..... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This examination requires an exhaustive presentation of the background and evidence in the case and we start with the stories of the three accused persons - Osgur Breathnach, Brian McNally and Nicky Kelly.
		Among those subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and with actual robbery of the mail from the Cork-Dublin train on the morning of the 31st of March, 1976, were Osgur Breathnach, Brian McNally, Michael Plunkett, John Fitzpatrick, Michael Barrett and Nicky Kelly.
		While the case inevitably relates to allegations of Garda brutality against persons held in Garda custody, it is not the kernal of the case presented here.
	1169andcounting.blogspot.com /2006_10_29_1169andcounting_archive.html (4031 words)

	ICCL Irish Council For Civil Liberties : Press Releases : Refugees Asylum Seekers Declaration Human Rights National ...
		The Irish Council for Civil Liberties will tomorrow mark the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Special Criminal Court with a press conference in the Ormond Quay Hotel at 9.30am.
		Also in attendance at the conference will be, Nicky Kelly, recent general election candidate for the Labour Party who was wrongly convicted by the Special Criminal Court for the Sallins train robbery.
		In that case there was evidence that one of the judges had fallen asleep during the trial and that the three accused had been seriously mistreated by gardaí.
	iccl.ie /DB_Data/press/SCC30thBirthday_63.htm (489 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 393 - 22 November, 1989 - Private Members' Business. - Criminal Justice Bill, 1989: Second ...
		I saw his name mentioned in one or two of the reports.
		This case arose from the Sallins mail train robbery.
		One of the questions at issue before the Court of Criminal Appeal was whether the interrogation of Bernard McNally and that of Osgur Breathnach — which ultimately produced confessions — produced “voluntary confessions” for the purposes for which that term has been defined.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0393/D.0393.198911220113.html (10193 words)

	SAOIRSE32: 2005/06/05 - 2005/06/11
		Squinter was delighted to report that it was, although he had to add that the witness’s sentencing on an armed robbery rap and his trial on charges of attempted murder arising from a city centre stabbing might hold things up a bit.
		In January 1954, Leo McCormick, the Training Officer for the Dublin Brigade of the IRA, was on a visit to Armagh.
		It's not as if there was no precedent for Garda corruption and cover-up going back many years and covering instances such as the Kerry Babies case, the Sallins Train Robbery, the Frank Shortt case and the Garda Heavy Gang.
	fenian32.blogspot.com /2005_06_05_fenian32_archive.html (14684 words)

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