Shatter moves to end 6-year tribunal

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter pushed through a move to wrap up a long-running inquiry into the killing of two RUC officers, saying closure was needed for the families of the murdered policemen.

The Dáil yesterday approved a motion to finish up the six-year Smithwick Tribunal, which will see it produce a final report by the end of November this year.

The inquiry was established in 2005 to probe suggestions that gardaí or other state employees colluded in the fatal shootings of RUC officers Harry Breen and Robert Buchanan in Dundalk, Co Louth, in 1989.