Adams to seek murder inquiry

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams will today join in a Dáil picket demanding an independent public inquiry into the murder of Donegal councillor Eddie Fullerton.

Mr Fullerton was shot in 1991 in a murder which was subsequently claimed by the UFF amid allegations of collusion with British intelligence services.

Calls for the circumstances behind the murder to be included in the terms of reference of the Morris Tribunal in 2002 were turned down by the Government although Justice Minister Michael McDowell has since asked gardaí to re-examine the affair.