Death of Peter Pringle sees end of damages claim against State

A High Court application to strike out legal proceedings brought by Peter Pringle against the State has succeeded following his death in early 2023. Mr Pringle, who was convicted in 1980 of murdering two gardaí during a bank robbery in Ballaghadreen, County Roscommon, had originally received a death sentence later commuted to forty years imprisonment. His conviction was declared unsafe and unsatisfactory by the…