FORMER Taoiseach Dr Garret FitzGerald said he does not recall details of any Cabinet conversations about the Dublin/Monaghan bombings in the months following the atrocity.

REPRESENTATIVES of the families of Dublin-Monaghan bombing victims yesterday welcomed the support of a former Cabinet Minister for a judicial inquiry into the tragedy.

The British Government’s deliberate obstruction of the investigation by Mr Justice Barron into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings warrants a more proactive response than that displayed by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, yesterday.

THE British establishment has an obligation to the people of Ireland “to come clean”, a campaign group representing many of the survivors and victims’ families said last night.

THE GARDA investigation into the 1974 Monaghan/Dublin bombings made a number of critical mistakes and failed to probe all avenues of investigation.

The long-awaited Barron report into terrorist bombings in Dublin and the border town of Monaghan on the same night almost 30 years ago was due to be published today.

A full judicial inquiry, complete with the co-operation of the British government, is the only way the real truth will be revealed behind the 1974 terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, campaigners said today.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern, yesterday said he found it extraordinary that the original Garda investigation into the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings concluded in less than a year.

The Taoiseach has revealed to the Dail that the head of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombing is not satisfied with the level of co-operation from the British Authorities.

British authorities planned a detailed defence against allegations that security service operatives colluded with loyalists to plant bombs in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974, killing 33 people, it was reported today.

Britain tonight pledged to do all it could to assist a huge inquiry into a loyalist bombing outrage which left 33 people dead in Dublin and Monaghan.

The Northern Secretary is to meet with the head of the inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, Justice Henry Barron, later today in London.

Protesters demanding that Britain hands over documents to an Irish commission investigating the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which killed 33 people, gave British Prime Minister Tony Blair a noisy reception today.