A paranoid schizophrenic Australian who attacked two Welsh tourists in Dublin will spend 18 months in the Central Mental Hospital as part of a two-and-a-half-year sentence.

The Irish Government must hold a full public inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, relatives of the victims of the 1974 blasts said tonight as the inquest concluded.

Loyalist bombers who killed 34 people in Ireland may have had help from members of the British security forces, the Barron Report found tonight.

The Oireachtas committee on the Constitution is due to meet in public later today to discuss the issue of property rights.