Murdered Seamus Ludlow's 'smearing by Garda among most shameful Irish episodes', court hears

The Garda smearing of a murdered man's name ranks among the most shameful episodes of the Irish state, Dublin's High Court has been told.

A barrister said the Justice Minister's failure to hold a commission of investigation into events around the 1976 killing of Seamus Ludlow "flies in the face of reason" when such an inquiry was being considered for the Olympics ticket-touting affair.