Brady denies using bombings for 'sympathy votes'

DUBLIN European candidate Royston Brady last night gave a rare public interview in a bid to limit damaging accusations that he sought to capitalise from the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings.

Angry victims of the atrocity yesterday rounded on Mr Brady after he claimed his father's taxi had been hijacked and used as a getaway vehicle by loyalists responsible for the bombings.

But Mr Brady, who made the remarks about his father's hijacking in a Hot Press interview several months ago, last night stood by his version of events.