RUC logbook shows tip-off that IRA planned to bomb Newry

Alan Erwin

Representatives from Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s office found details of a tip-off recorded in a log book for March 27, 1992, intelligence sources confirmed.

The information is understood to be even more specific than an alleged warning from an ex-military agent whose claims are at the centre of Mrs O’Loan’s bid to establish if Special Branch let the IRA launch the attack in order to protect an informer.