Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has come under further political pressure about what he may know about who who carried out the 1983 IRA murder of prison officer Brian Stack.

Organised crime boss John Gilligan is to be released from prison this morning.

A Drimnagh man is to have his trial take place before the Special Criminal Court after the Director of Public Prosecutions stated that ordinary courts are “inadequate” to deal with it.