Murdered garda’s family deserves the full truth. What’s the problem?

Michael McDowell refused to release the Justice Department file in line with the 30-year rule ... If McDowell had been in opposition, he would probably have said we were behaving a like banana republic!

THE new Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan, is coming under pressure to hold an inquiry into murder of Garda Richard Fallon who was shot while trying to arrest bank robbers in April 1970.

The Garda Representative Association has formally called on the minister to hold an independent inquiry into the murder.