Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama, looking to chart a US foreign policy course far removed from the Bush administration’s path, said he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that would deny the al-Qaida leader the chance to become a martyr.

NO evidence has been uncovered by the authorities in the North linking members of the RUC, UDR, British army or intelligence services to the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, Secretary of State Paul Murphy has claimed.

The Stormont First and Deputy First Ministers have been advised they cannot use their offices to support the campaign to raise funds for a private prosecution against those suspected of planting the Omagh bomb, it emerged today.