Taoiseach moves for new inquiry into bombs

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will pursue the setting-up of a Cory-type investigation into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombing atrocities with British Prime Minister Tony Blair when the two meet in September.

In announcing yesterday that it was setting up a Commission of Investigation in the South, the Government also moved for the first time to formally broach with the British Government its flagrant lack of co-operation with earlier enquiries.

Specifically, it will ask the British Government to set up an independent body that can fully examine allegations of collusion between the UVF bombers and the security forces.