Breen vows to withhold Real IRA sources

POLICE in the North have made a court bid to force a journalist to hand over information about the Real IRA.

Chief Constable Hugh Orde launched the case after Suzanne Breen, northern editor of the Dublin-published Sunday Tribune, refused to give up materials linked to two articles she wrote about the dissident republican group.

When the case opened before Recorder Tom Burgess in Belfast, counsel for the chief constable, barrister Tony McGleenan, said he was applying for the case to be heard in the absence of the public and the media because of the sensitivity of the information that would be disclosed.