GARDA bosses will admit in a report to Justice Minister Brendan Smith that they knew about the presence of a British undercover police officer here.

One of the men on trial in relation to the recovery of €440m worth of cocaine off the West Cork coast has a brother who was with the drug squad of the British Metropolitan Police, it emerged on the fourteenth day of the trial today.

The Belfast-based Committee on the Administration of Human Rights has criticised plans to publish just 15 pages from a 3,000-page report on the inquiry into alleged British collusion in the 1989 murder of Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane.

A senior British Metropolitan Police officer today warned that further terrorist bomb attacks on Britain were likely in the run-up to the general election.