Taoiseach and PM clash over Finucane inquiry

A clash over the need for a public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalist gunmen was the only flashpoint in a Downing St summit between Enda Kenny and David Cameron.

The issue left the two leaders at odds as they agreed a 10-year trade co-operation deal and expressed the need to push common concerns in the EU — even though Britain refused to join closer fiscal union.

Mr Cameron drew Irish anger by appointing lawyer Desmond de Silva to consider evidence in the Finucane case — in apparent contradiction of a 2001 agreement to probe crimes involving state collusion.