US PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s security advisers were in Dublin yesterday putting the final touches on his one-day visit here.

FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny last night demanded the British come clean over loyalist bomb attacks in the Republic following revelations of widespread police collusion with paramilitaries in the North.

THE families of the Miami Showband who were massacred in 1975 yesterday received assurances from the Taoiseach that the issue of collusion would be discussed in the Dáil early next year.

THE Justice for the Forgotten campaign group last night described the report as incredibly significant but queried why the committee had stopped short of recommending a public inquiry.

Dublin Lord Mayor Royston Brady tonight stood over claims that his father’s taxi was used as a getaway vehicle during the 1974 Dublin bombings.

TODAY is the 30th anniversary of Ireland’s biggest atrocity — the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

TWENTY-NINE years after the greatest atrocity in the history of the state, relatives of the victims of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings are still looking for the truth.

The British government has given those who oppose change in Northern Ireland an advantage by creating a political vacuum, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams argued tonight.

Hundreds of people are expected to gather in central Dublin today for the 28th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings in which 28 people died and hundreds were injured.

The British government is set to face demands by the Omagh relatives for a full public inquiry into the bombing of the town, which left 29 people dead, it emerged today.

Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen has met with Northern Secretary Dr John Reid and Decommissioning Body Head General de Chastelain in Dublin.