The bereaved families of 10 people shot dead by British soldiers have appealed to Taoiseach Enda Kenny to support their calls for an independent investigation.

New eyewitness accounts of the shootings of 11 people by British soldiers in the North were submitted to the region‘s Attorney General today in a bid to get fresh inquests opened.

Families of 11 people killed by the British Army six months before Bloody Sunday will meet the Northern Ireland Secretary, it was revealed today.