US will not oppose bid to delay IRA tape handover

THE US Justice Department has said it will not oppose an application to postpone the handing over of interviews with former republican paramilitaries to the PSNI.

US will not oppose bid to delay IRA tape handover
Tue, 10 Jan, 2012 - 00:00
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The application had been made by those involved in Boston College’s “Belfast Project”, an oral history of the Troubles. This was writer and journalist Ed Maloney and researcher Anthony McIntyre.

A full hearing on the matter will now take place on January 24.

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