Memoirs claim SF did not want another Bloody Sunday inquiry

IT HAS gone on 10 years, cost €250 million to date and raked up decades of painful history but a book now claims Sinn Féin never wanted a new Bloody Sunday inquiry in the first place.

In his memoirs published this week, Jonathan Powell, senior aide to then British prime minister Tony Blair says Martin McGuinness told him some time after the inquiry was set up that he couldn’t understand why Britain had agreed to it.

Mr Powell also claims Mr McGuinness conceded in private conversation with him that the inquiry was unnecessary and that “an apology from Britain would have been quite sufficient”.