Despite warnings about an impending attack, the Canadian government failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the Air India bombing off the coast of Ireland in 1985, writes Eddie Cassidy.

More than a century of service to the seafaring community by the Coast Guard radio station in Valentia, Co Kerry, has been marked by the erection of a plaque to honour all who worked there.

The Government is putting in a contingency plan for a major disaster by commissioning the creation of a massive mobile mortuary capable of handling at least 100 bodies.

THE daughter of an air hostess killed in the Air India bombing off west Cork in 1985 was among 40 relatives of victims attending the 25th anniversary commemoration ceremony yesterday.

RELATIVES of some of the 329 people killed during one of the world’s deadliest terrorist attacks will gather in west Cork this week to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Air India disaster.

SHE’S clocked up enough miles to travel twice to the moon and back, carried out 5,000 fishery boardings and collected €3.5 million in fines.

Lawyers have made their final arguments in the murder trial of two Sikhs charged over the 1985 bombing of an Air India jumbo jet, ending one of the most exhaustive and expensive trials in Canadian history.

A SIKH man who acquired the materials for a bomb that killed 329 people aboard an Air India flight in 1985 was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday.

A Sikh militant today today admitted killing 329 people who died on board an Air India jumbo jet when it was blown up in 1985.