Court challenge delays report into 1998 death of Real IRA man

Publication of the final report of the inquiry into the shooting dead of a Real IRA member by gardaí during an attempted robbery is being delayed by a High Court challenge from a person named in the document.

That person is asking the report of the Commission of Investigation into the death of Ronan MacLochlainn be amended before it is passed to the minister for justice and subsequently made public.

Established in August 2014 and intended to take just six months, the inquiry has already taken three times longer than expected and is running at more than double the cost originally estimated.