Donaldson: Government must facilitate any extradition request for Patrick Ryan

The DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson has called on the Irish courts and the Irish government to facilitate any extradition request for controversial former priest Patrick Ryan who confessed his involvement with the Brighton bombing on a BBC programme which is to be broadcast on Tuesday night.

Mr Donaldson told RTÉ Radio’s News at One that there are clips in which Patrick Ryan “confesses to his involvement in a number of very serious crimes including terrorist activity by the IRA, incidents such as the Brighton bomb when the IRA tried to assassinate the then British prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.