SURVIVORS and families of the victims of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings have called on An Garda Síochána to issue a full apology over its appalling handling of the investigation into the single biggest atrocity committed during the Troubles.

The inquest into the deaths of six people who died in the Monaghan bombing in 1974 has been re-opened by the Dublin city coroner.

THE full inquest into the deaths of the victims of the 1974 loyalist bombing of Dublin is unlikely to take place until after the publication of an independent investigation into the atrocity next autumn.

The Taoiseach has revealed to the Dail that the head of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombing is not satisfied with the level of co-operation from the British Authorities.