IRA men in Derry on Bloody Sunday when 13 unarmed Catholics were shot dead by British troops were tonight urged to testify at a tribunal into the killings.

Paratroopers who opened fire killing 13 civilians on Bloody Sunday may have been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, a journalist who spent time with them beforehand claimed today.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal today ruled that intelligence material directly relating to the activities of civilian witnesses on the day of the shootings should be admitted to the inquiry.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness today confirmed publicly for the first time that he was the IRA’s second-in-command in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

A one-time brother-in-law of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, who was jailed in America for attempting to import a missile to Ireland, claimed at the new Inquiry into Bloody Sunday he had been ‘‘brutalised’’ by events that day 29 years ago.