A lawyer today challenged whether the Saville Inquiry could ever establish what the IRA did on Bloody Sunday because of a ‘‘paucity’’ of direct evidence from the group during the four years since the inquiry opened.

MI5, the RUC and the Metropolitan Police today came out against conducting a large-scale trawl of their intelligence files for the Saville Inquiry.

A man today recalled Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness ‘‘recoiling in shock’’ as he was told of the Army shootings on Bloody Sunday.