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Top Story February 15, 2021 DUBLIN: The British government needs to “step up” over its obligations to hold an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, the Irish premier said. Taoiseach Micheal Martin, speaking to the Sunday Times in a wide-ranging interview, said the Irish side had investigated terrorist killings where collusion with security forces was suspected, and reiterated calls for Britain to reciprocate. Finucane, 39, who represented republican and loyalist paramilitaries during th...

The Taoiseach says the Irish side have investigated terrorist killings where collusion with security forces was suspected.

The Taoiseach says the Irish side have investigated terrorist killings where collusion with security forces was suspected.

The British government needs to “step up” over its obligations to hold an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, the Irish premier said. Taoiseach Micheal Martin, speaking to the Sunday Times in a wide-ranging interview, said the Irish side had investigated terrorist killings where collusion with security forces was suspected, and reiterated calls for Britain to reciprocate. Mr Finucane, 39, who represented republican and loyalist paramilitaries during the conflict, was shot dead in his f...

Northern Irelands First Minister Arlene Foster is to present a dossier to Taoiseach Micheál Martin early this month containing allegations the Irish State colluded with the IRA during the Troubles. The Democratic Unionist Party leader will ask Mr Martin to study the file - which she says "points to collusion between the Provisional IRA and gardaí" - and provide answers on behalf of the State. "I trust this will be an opportunity to set out the concerns of many innocent victims and press forwa...

A garda mole tipped off terror chief Michael McKevitt that his Dundalk home was to be raided by police, a damning collusion report revealed.

A garda mole tipped off terror chief Michael McKevitt that his Dundalk home was to be raided by police, a damning collusion report revealed. Details about how a rogue Dundalk-based cop warned the then Provo quartermaster to remove false passports from his house were contained within the Smithwick Tribunal report in 2013. The investigation was set up in 2005 to examine allegations that Irish police officers had helped the IRA murder RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buc...

THE leader of the DUP, and First Minister, Arlene Foster, has written to An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, about the findings of collusion by the Irish State during The Troubles. The First Minister sent a letter to Mr. Martin last week in the wake of a tweet by a Sinn Féin TD, Brian Stanley, about the Narrow Water atrocity in 1979, and the decision by the UK government not to hold a public inquiry into the murder of human rights lawyer, Pat Finucane, in 1989. In the letter, Mrs. Foster said...