A round-up of today's other Irish news stories in brief
Bloody Sunday report to be held over until after election in UK
The Bloody Sunday report into the deaths of 14 people at the hands of the British army in 1972 will not be published until after the general election, the British government said yesterday.
Lord Saville has been asked to hold the mammoth dossier on the Derry shootings until after the May 6th poll, the Northern Ireland Office said. A spokesman said: “Now that the prime minister has called an election, it will therefore not be possible to publish the Bloody Sunday report to parliament before parliament has been dissolved.
“The Secretary of State has today asked Lord Saville to continue to keep possession of the report and therefore not to hand it over to the government until the election has taken place.”
The inquiry was ordered by former prime minister Tony Blair and cost almost £200 million (€228 million). – (PA)
Boyle apologises over Twitter hacking
Green Party chairman Senator Dan Boyle has apologised to those who follow his Twitter messages, saying it appeared his account had been hacked.
An inoffensive spam message was sent to Mr Boyle’s followers yesterday evening. Shortly afterwards Mr Boyle himself sent this message: “My apologies. It seems my Twitter account has been hacked. I am taking corrective action.”
Mr Boyle’s most famous tweet was sent in February. After the Green Party supported a Dáil motion of confidence in the then minister for defence Willie O’Dea, Mr Boyle tweeted that he was not happy with what had happened, adding: “Believe we bounced into supporting motion.”
Ennis council bans more head shops
Ennis Town Council last night voted to endorse an effective planning ban on any more head shops in the town. The move follows the town's two head shops being vandalised within a 24-hour period over the bank holiday weekend. The Harmonization head shop was broken into and the Laughing Buddha was also ransacked.
Man (64) dies in single van crash
A man aged 64 was killed in crash in Co Wexford yesterday morning.
The man died after the van he was driving crashed at Oldcourt, Adamstown, New Ross, shortly after 2am.
He was the sole occupant and there were no other vehicles involved. Gardaí appealed for witnesses to contact New Ross Garda station at 051-426030.