Widespread demands for Claudy Inquiry

Demands are being stepped up today for a judicial inquiry into astonishing police claims that the Government and the Catholic Church shielded a priest suspected of orchestrating a bombing outrage in Northern Ireland which killed nine people.

The then Northern Ireland Secretary William Whitelaw and Cardinal William Conway discussed Father Jim Chesney, who was later transferred to an isolated parish across the border in Co Donegal, even through he was a prime suspect.