Family needs a full-scale inquiry

THE State’s callous treatment of the family of murdered Co Louth forestry worker Séamus Ludlow can only be described as outrageous.

It was reprehensible that the family was not alerted to the imminent release of the Barron probe into the killing of the 47-year-old by a four-man loyalist gang near Dundalk in May 1976.

Publication of the long-awaited report by Mr Justice Henry Barron into the circumstances surrounding his murder is to be welcomed.