Senior gardaí were today accused of turning a blind eye to allegations that a top officer wanted to bury an email casting doubt on the credibility of an FBI informant.

Senior gardaí were today accused of turning a blind eye to allegations that a top officer wanted to bury an email casting doubt on the credibility of an FBI informant.

MEMBERS of Republican Sinn Féin yesterday protested outside the Kerry County Museum in Tralee where an exhibition is being held on William Melville, founder of the British Secret Service.

REPUBLICANS have expressed disgust that a public hall, dedicated to a Kerry Fenian, is being used to celebrate the life and times of a MI5 founder.

The announcement of an inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales’s lover Dodi Fayed is the latest development in a six-year saga which has followed the fatal Paris road crash.

Documents sought by lawyers for the first man charged under new legislation in Ireland with directing terrorism are still within British and US jurisdictions, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.