Scientist rubbish’s claims of the General’s innocence

THE former head of the Forensic State Laboratory has rubbished claims by the daughter of Martin Cahill that the gangland boss was not involved in two failed assassination attempts on the scientist’s life.

Dr James Donovan, who suffered horrific injuries in 1982 when a bomb went off underneath his car, yesterday scoffed at any suggestion that the criminal known as ‘The General’ was not responsible for the attack.

In a controversial book entitled Martin Cahill — My Father which is published this weekend, Frances Cahill claims the country’s leading forensic scientist was “a very unpopular man”. She maintains that the attacks on Dr Donovan could have been carried out by any number of criminals who were being investigated by gardaí at the time.