RELATIVES of victims of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings have asked the High Court to order the Taoiseach to release documents from the McEntee Inquiry into the atrocity.

TWO boxes of tissues were left on the bare table among the microphones and other props you expect to find in an Oireachtas committee room. As the room emptied out at the end of the hearing, they remained the only physical reminders of the traumatic testimony that had expired.

SOMETHING is rotten in the state of Ireland. It is now almost 30 years since 33 innocent people were savagely murdered and scores mutilated in the single biggest act of carnage committed in the course of the Troubles.