Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy has agreed to appoint a liaison officer to work with the Justice for the Forgotten group.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will pursue the setting-up of a Cory-type investigation into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombing atrocities with British Prime Minister Tony Blair when the two meet in September.

The Justice for the Forgotten Group has called on the British government to co-operate fully with the investigation into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair will today come under intense pressure to initiate a judicial inquiry into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

The Oireachtas sub-committee hearing into the findings of the Barron Report was yesterday dismissed as another delaying exercise that would achieve absolutely nothing for justice.

Three families of those killed in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings today demanded that the newly opened parliamentary inquiry into the atrocities be abandoned.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was today meeting the families of some of those killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, just hours before the report into the atrocities was due to be published.

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 Government has announced a €3m grant to help people south of the border who suffered as a result of violence during the Troubles.

The Justice for the Forgotten group has held a commemoration service to mark the 30th anniversary of the Dublin bombing today.

The Justice for the Forgotten group will today remember the three victims of the Dublin bombings in the 1970s.

The Justice for the Forgotten group has launched a campaign to try to force Britain to co-operate with the inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974, which killed 33 people.