Commissioner defends appointment of Glenholmes to victims' forum

Appointing a woman once dubbed Britain's "most wanted" IRA suspect to a new forum for victims in the North was necessary to reflect the varied experiences from decades of conflict, it has been claimed.

Unionists have hit out at the appointment of Eibhlin Glenholmes, who at the height of the Troubles was the focus of failed extradition proceedings in Dublin as British authorities sought to question her about a string of IRA attacks in England.