Bloody Sunday: IRA evidence ‘too limited’

A lawyer today challenged whether the Saville Inquiry could ever establish what the IRA did on Bloody Sunday because of a ‘‘paucity’’ of direct evidence from the group during the four years since the inquiry opened.

Gerald Elias QC made the claim as Counsel to the Inquiry, Christopher Clarke QC, disclosed that only nine people in total belonging to both the Official and Provisional wings of the IRA had made themselves known to the tribunal.