Ahern to raise issue of Ludlow murder

A THREE-decade-old loyalist murder and questions over the failure to bring prosecutions will be raised with the North’s secretary of state by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Dermot Ahern has said he will raise “at the earliest opportunity” the case of Seamus Ludlow, who was shot dead by loyalists close to his home north of Dundalk in 1976.

An inquest into the murder was held this week and a jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing.