Cork-based photographer Dara McGrath has spent years taking pictures of chemical weapons sites and other contaminated military areas, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

A senior lawyer who unexpectedly left the public inquiry into the murder of a loyalist paramilitary leader claimed today he was sacked and did not resign.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has called for the release of the three Irishmen arrested in Colombia on suspicion of training the country’s largest leftist rebel group.