A man who was sentenced to death for murdering two gardai in a bank raid in Roscommon in 1980 has died at his home in Connemara.
Peter Pringle served 15 years in jail before he was released in 1995 after his convictions were deemed unsafe and quashed.
He was sentenced to death for the capital murders of two gardai, John Morley and Henry Byrne, during a bank robbery in Ballaghaderreen in July 1980 which shocked the nation.