"There is a tunnel in Dublin that connects the Bridewell Garda Station and the Four Courts. It was here, 50 years ago, that Osgur Breatnach was tortured by plain-clothes detectives. The Dubliner - then a 25-year-old member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the editor of its newspaper The Starry Plough - had been arrested and accused of being part of an armed gang that stole £220,000 after the Dublin to Cork mail train was held up at Sallins, Co Kildare."
Osgur Breatnach, now 75, endured torture by plain-clothes detectives in a tunnel connecting Bridewell Garda Station and the Four Courts in Dublin 50 years ago. Arrested at age 25 as a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and editor of The Starry Plough newspaper, he was accused of involvement in an armed gang that stole £220,000 during a Dublin to Cork mail train robbery at Sallins, Co Kildare. A confession was beaten out of him by the shadowy garda 'Heavy Gang'. Breatnach now hopes a benefit concert will serve as a catalyst for an official apology and a public inquiry into these events.
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