Murphy claims no evidence of collusion in bombings

NO evidence has been uncovered by the authorities in the North linking members of the RUC, UDR, British army or intelligence services to the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, Secretary of State Paul Murphy has claimed.

In a letter to the Oireachtas committee hearings into the Barron Report, Mr Murphy said if any evidence had been found, it would have been passed on to Mr Justice Henry Barron.

After requests to the British for information, the judge received a 10-page letter from the Northern secretary and a further six pages detailing the workings of the security services at the time. The Northern Ireland Office said there are 68,000 files of possible relevance and millions more in London's Ministry of Defence.