Charlie Flanagan: Government to press British for inquiry into Dublin-Monaghan bombings

The Government has vowed to pressure the next British Prime Minister to agree to let a judge inspect classified security files linked to the worst day of atrocities in the Troubles.

Thirty-three people were killed, including a pregnant woman at full term, when loyalist paramilitaries detonated four no-warning bombs in Dublin and Monaghan on May 17 1974.