IRA chief may get legal aid

LAWYERS acting for dissident republican terror chief Michael McKevitt were yesterday told they can seek next month to overturn the North’s High Court refusal to grant him legal aid to defend the civil action being brought by relatives of Omagh bomb victims.

During a brief hearing in the High Court Mr Justice Girvan set October 26 for the judicial review to challenge the refusal.

McKevitt, 54, from Blackrock, Co Louth, is one of five men being sued for £10 million in a landmark case brought by several relatives of the 29 people murdered in the August 1998 bomb massacre carried out by the Real IRA.