§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether 463 a re-investigation of the case of Cornelius O'Donoghue, of Carrigdangan, Kilmachael, County Cork, who was convicted of an alleged dynamite offence at the Cork Assizes in 1889, will be granted, in view of the fact that fresh evidence is now forthcoming, and in the hands of the authorities, tending to prove O'Donoghue's innocence?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN,) Dublin UniversityI am not aware of the evidence to which the hon. Member refers; but if, in the opinion of the convict or of those interested in his case, any such evidence exists, the proper course is to submit it, by way of a Memorial, for the consideration of the Lord Lieutenant.
§ DR. TANNERI would ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, seeing that this man was convicted on the unsupported evidence of an informer, he will make an inquiry into the circumstances of this man's case, with the view of doing justice if it should be found that the man has been wrongfully convicted?
§ MR. MADDENI have no right to make inquiry after a conviction; but I am quite certain the hon. Gentleman must be misinformed when he states that the man was convicted on the unsupported evidence of an informer.