State wins appeal against costs order over Ludlow family inquiry bid

Seamus Ludlow was shot after leaving a bar in Dundalk and his body was found on May 2, 1976 in a lane near his home. File picture: Tom Conachy

The State has won its appeal over an order that it pay half the legal costs of the family of Seamus Ludlow of their failed bid to compel commissions of inquiry into the "inexcusable" handling of the Garda investigation into his murder.

The costs order was made on public interest grounds.