Legal quandary over Colombia Three

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has admitted the Government would have to consider the legal aspects of any possible calls for the extradition of three Irish men on the run from Colombia, if they reappeared in Ireland.

Mr Ahern said the Attorney General Rory Brady had sought a translation of the recent ruling by a Colombian appeal court which imposed 17-year jail sentences on James Monaghan, Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley.

It overturned the three men’s earlier acquittal on charges of training Marxist FARC rebel guerillas in Colombia in bomb-making.