The decision to withhold a police report on security force collusion in paramilitary murders could be challenged in court, it was revealed today.

THE naming by unionist peer Lord Laird, under the protection of parliamentary privilege in the House of Lords, of a number of alleged IRA members who were supposedly present at the killing of Sean Quinn in Co Monaghan is an act of gross irresponsibility and an abuse of the democratic process.

A body representing solicitors in the North was tonight bewildered by claims from Ian Paisley that many lawyers in the North are involved in money laundering for the IRA.

Former Tory Minister Douglas Hogg was heckled in a courtroom today by protesters demanding a full inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

The dirty war British intelligence waged against the IRA sank to its murkiest depths with Pat Finucane’s assassination.