Slain forestry worker's family accepts killers won't be caught

The family of a murdered Dundalk forestry worker have given up hope of his killers ever being brought to justice, it emerged today.

Seamus Ludlow, 47, was abducted by loyalist paramilitaries in Co Louth and shot dead on May 2, 1976, but gardaí never interviewed the suspects identified by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) 18 months later.