While there is a high degree of acceptance of journalistic privilege by the courts, Judge Peter Charleton has questioned whether it extends to sources with malicious motivations, writes Dan Buckley

IN THE foreword to Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA (O’Brien Press, 25), Brendan Anderson explains that Cahill, a former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, spoke to him “frankly about those things that he is free to speak about”.

The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams is expected to join mourners at the funeral of the former IRA chief of staff Sean Mac Stiofain in Navan, Co Meath, today.