Family seeks independent inquiry into man’s murder

THE family of murdered Dundalk forestry worker Seamus Ludlow yesterday repeated demands for an independent public inquiry into the death.

Relatives appeared before the Oireachtas Justice Sub-Committee, which has begun hearings into last November’s report by Mr Justice Henry Barron on the 1976 crime.

Mr Ludlow, 47, who the Barron report said had no links to paramilitary groups, was shot dead on May 2, 1976, as he returned home from a night out.