Minister for Justice Michael McDowell denies he had any hand, act or part in the arrest of journalist Mick McCaffrey.

A journalist and a detective sergeant questioned by gardaí over the leak of an official report highly critical of the force were tonight released without charge.

A journalist and a detective sergeant were today arrested by gardaí investigating the leak of an official report highly critical of the force.

Inappropriate leading questions by investigating gardaí led homeless drug addict Dean Lyons to make a false confession to a double murder, an inquiry concluded today.

SENIOR gardaí criticised in a Government report into the Dean Lyons affair should be punished appropriately, a TD said last night.

Senior gardaí criticised in a Government report into the Dean Lyons affair should be be punished appropriately, a TD said tonight.

An independent inquiry is to be launched into how innocent drug addict Dean Lyons confessed to the brutal double murder of two women in their Dublin home, it emerged today.

THE confession of a double murderer to the killing of two elderly women and the reasons why he was not prosecuted should be probed as part of an inquiry into the Dean Lyons affair, Labour leader Pat Rabbitte said last night.

The Garda has reportedly issued a public apology to the family of a man who was wrongly arrested and charged in connection with the 1997 Grangegorman murders.

An inquest into the deaths of Sylvia Sheils and Mary Callinan, who were brutally killed at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in 1997, gets underway this morning at the Coroner's Court.