‘No paramilitary display’ at dissident’s funeral

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has insisted a paramilitary display will not be allowed at the funeral of dissident IRA figure Seamus McKenna.

South Armagh-born Mr McKenna, working as a labourer, died from injuries sustained early last week after falling from a school roof in Kilcurry, near Dundalk. He died in Beaumont Hospital after his organs had been harvested for transplant.

Suspected of involvement in the 1998 Omagh bombing, Mr McKenna was unsuccessfully sued by the families of those who were killed in the bombing.