Irishman denies role in funeral murders

A Los Angeles immigration judge cleared the court of the public and press at the request of a US prosecutor seeking the deportation of an Irishman convicted over the 1988 murders of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland.

The move came after an earlier session in which Sean O’Cealleagh, a barman at a Seal Beach bar and restaurant, said that he was not involved in the killings.