Gardaí 'told not to help IRA probe'

Gardaí were ordered by a former Taoiseach not to cooperate with an investigation into the IRA killing of 18 British soldiers because of paratroopers’ involvement in the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry, it was claimed tonight.

Papers lodged with a tribunal into claims of collusion between the Garda and republican terrorists detailed a heated row between officers from the two forces after the atrocity at Narrow Water near Warrenpoint, Co Down, in August 1979.