Trial may delay inquest into post office raiders' deaths

An inquest into the deaths of two post office raiders shot by armed detectives may not take place until 2008 if it is adjourned while another person is charged in relation to the incident, a court heard today.

The family of Dublin men – Colm Griffin, aged 33, and Eric Hopkins, aged 24, objected to an adjournment being sought until the trial of another person, arrested at the post office in Lusk, Co Dublin, is finished.