The Special Criminal Court today further adjourned an application by relatives of the Omagh bomb victims who are seeking documentation to help their £10m claim against five men in connection with the 1998 atrocity.

A garda witness in the trial of three Armagh men accused of memberhip of the IRA has told the Special Criminal Court he was unable to contact the accused’s solicitor on the night of the arrest.

IN THE early 1990s, a member of the Christian Brothers was watching television from his home in Western Canada. He tuned into live coverage of the Hughes Inquiry then underway in Newfoundland. The inquiry was investigating allegations of abuse by Christian Brothers in Newfoundland’s Mount Cashel Orphanage.

LAWYERS for convicted killer Mark Nash have claimed he should not be forced to give evidence at an inquest into the deaths of two women who were murdered in Dublin five years ago.

Documents sought by lawyers for the first man charged under new legislation in Ireland with directing terrorism are still within British and US jurisdictions, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.