Sinn Féin tonight officially backed a No vote in the second Lisbon Treaty referendum.

Brian Cowen has refused to comment on the photograph of Sinn Féin TDs with the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe that appeared in An Phoblacht.

Plans for a dinner and dance to celebrate an IRA mass escape from the Maze Prison 20 years ago were attacked today as “glorifying in acts of terrorism”.