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Flanagan Says Loughinisland Report Should Be Carefully Considered

The Minister for Foreign Affairs says todays report by the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland on the Loughinisland murders must be carefully examined, with a view to possible further investigations and possible prosecutions.

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Charlie Flanagan says the Ombudsman's findings are deeply disturbing – in particular his determination that "collusion is a significant feature of the Loughinisland murders".

The investigation found security forces in the North colluded with loyalist terrorists in a gun attack that killed six Catholic men in County Down in 1994.

The North's Police Ombudsman has found one suspect in the shooting was a police informant – but says officers didn't know in advance that the attack was going to happen.

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