ONE of two senior RUC officers killed by the Provisional IRA in 1989 expressed concern just hours before his murder that a garda based in Dundalk was passing on information to republican paramilitaries.

A former IRA commander involved in the ambush and killing of two senior RUC officers has been questioned by a tribunal probing allegations of garda collusion in the murders.

An attempt to murder a 41-year-old man in Northern Ireland today is believed to be the latest attack in a feud between loyalist paramilitary terror gangs, according to a senior police officer.

Alarming levels of paramilitary influence in the running of Belfast will spread, it was claimed tonight.

Detectives probing the murder of a man found battered to death in Belfast were today hunting a group who led him into the alleyway where he was brutally killed.