The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has received the findings of barrister Patrick McEntee's inquiry into the garda investigation of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

Intimidation is forcing those with knowledge of the IRA’s abduction and murder of a Northern teenager to keep quiet, the Democratic Unionist Party leader said today.

British security forces colluded in acts of international terrorism in the 1970s, a Dáil committee said in a hard-hitting report today.

The IRA's death threat against people intimidated out of the North during the conflict will be on the agenda for next week's talks aimed at restoring devolution, unionists said today.

THE daughter of Jean McConville, who was murdered by the IRA 34 years ago, said the group is trying to justify her death by issuing a statement claiming she was an informer to the British security forces.

Today’s IRA statement insisting Jean McConville was an informer has caused more pain to her family, her daughter said tonight.

MAY 17 is a date many people recall with strong feelings of sadness and anger, as well as a strong desire for the truth.

OPTIMISTICALLY, an issue which has been like a cloud over An Garda Síochána for the better part of 20 years will eventually be resolved by the Smithwick Tribunal, which opened in Dublin yesterday.

A FORMER Garda Commissioner has rejected allegations he was involved in blocking the pursuit of the suspected killers of Seamus Ludlow.

THE House of Lords will next week hear allegations of how the British security forces had a shoot-to-kill policy in the North.

Bertie Ahern has said the Dublin Joint Justice Committee would report back within three months on what further action should be taken in the wake of the Barron Report into the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974.

Loyalist bombers who killed 34 people in Ireland may have had help from members of the British security forces, the Barron Report found tonight.

The IRA was accused tonight of point scoring over the discovery of mother-of-ten Jean McConville’s body.

Two former British security officials are due to address a conference in Dublin tonight about alleged collusion between the British security forces and loyalist paramilitaries.

British security forces colluded with a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland to murder Catholics including prominent solicitor Pat Finucane, according to a report out today.

The Sam Maguire Cup was hoisted in triumph inside Parliament Buildings, Belfast for the first time tonight.

The widow of murdered Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane has accused the Irish and British Governments of delaying the appointment of an international judge to investigate the killing.