A convicted IRA man today admitted telling lies about Bloody Sunday to journalist Peter Taylor, who interviewed him for a television series and book on the Provos.

A former member of the Royal Navy who joined the IRA today conceded he could have fired a shot at the Army before his gun jammed on Bloody Sunday.

A man yanked his brother-in-law to safety from the scene where three men were shot dead on Bloody Sunday, the inquiry into the shootings heard today.

A one-time brother-in-law of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, who was jailed in America for attempting to import a missile to Ireland, claimed at the new Inquiry into Bloody Sunday he had been ‘‘brutalised’’ by events that day 29 years ago.

A youth who spotted an Official IRA gunman on Bloody Sunday was going to throttle the would-be assailant, the Saville Inquiry has been told.