Britain still refuses to fully co-operate with bombs probe

THE British authorities are still refusing to co-operate fully with the inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said the Barron inquiry into the 1974 bombings should be finished early in the New Year, though he admitted that Justice Barron was still waiting for key information from the British authorities.

Mr Ahern said that if that information was not supplied, it was either unavailable or was in the British security system, meaning that it was uncertain if the information would ever be handed over. Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny asked the Taoiseach to comment on a letter from the British Ministry of Defence to former employees, telling them not to co-operate with the inquiry or provide any information to the families of the victims of the