Government backs investigation into loyalist murder of Co Louth man

(left to right) Solicitor Gavin Booth, and cousins Michael Donegan and Eileen Boland, family of Seamus Ludlow, speaking to the media (Niall Carson/PA)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government will support any investigation into the loyalist murder of a Co Louth man 44 years ago.

An independent cross-border investigation will be carried out into the murder of Seamus Ludlow, 47, a forestry worker, who was killed on his way home from a pub in Dundalk in 1976.