The Irish Government raised concerns over claims made by a British Conservative minister that some lawyers in Northern Ireland were “unduly sympathetic to the IRA”, weeks before Pat Finucane was killed.

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Former British Deputy Prime minister John Prescott privately harboured doubts about the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he disclosed today.

Former British home secretary Kenneth Clarke blocked an investigation into the interception of the telephone calls behind the "Squidgy-gate" and "Camilla-gate" affairs in case the press found out, a court heard today.

IT was the most audacious attack yet mounted by the IRA, although the toll in lives and injuries was far less than in many other of its atrocities.