Barron ‘frustrated’ by lack of co-operation

A JUDICIAL investigation into bombings and murders in the Irish Republic during 1972-73 that resulted in eight deaths was severely hampered by the refusal of British authorities to co-operate with the enquiry.

At the launch yesterday of the second report by Judge Henry Barron’s inquiring into allegations of collusion between British security elements and loyalist paramilitaries in the early 1970s, it emerged that the judge’s repeated efforts to gain information from British authorities had been fruitless.

In the first report dealing with the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings that claimed 33 lives, Judge Barron was highly critical of the lack of co-operation he had received from the British authorities. In his second enquiry he had been similarly “frustrated”.