The last execution; The hangman: Albert Pierrepoint and Robert McGladdery.

The Daily Mail (London, England) | March 11, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: CHARLES LEGGE

QUESTIONWho was the last person hanged in Ireland?

MICHAEL MANNING was the last man to go to the gallows in the Republic in 1954.

A Limerick labourer, he was just 25 when he was hanged for the murder ofCatherine Cooper, a 65-year-old nurse who worked at Barringtons Hospital in thetown.

The last man to be hanged in the north was 25-year-old agricultural workerRobert McGladdery in 1961 for the murder of 19-year-old shop assistant PearlGamble.

Pearl was found strangled and stabbed in a field near her home in ...

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