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JUSTICE campaigners vowed to fight on after the release of key documents regarding British state collusion in the deadliest killing of the Troubles was blocked by a Belfast court today.
A High Court judge ordered a U-turn on a December decision to disclose documents relating to the Monaghan/Dublin bombings of May 17 1974 – the deadliest single day of the Troubles, in which 34 people were killed.
Survivors and the bereaved are suing over the alleged involvement of British soldiers and the police, who they claim aided a notorious loyalist paramilitary gang to carry out three bombings in the Dublin rush hour and another in Monaghan 90 minutes later.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM