A report highly critical of the RUC's handling of their investigation into the murder of a senior GAA man in 1997 has been published by the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan.
Mrs O'Loan branded inquiries into the killing of Mr Sean Brown (61) in Co Derry "incomplete and inadequate".
The report identified "significant failures in the investigation" and upheld complaints about the handling of the investigation from the family of the victim.
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Mr Brown, the chairman of Wolfe Tone GAA club in Bellaghy, Co Derry, was abducted in 1997 by the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) as he locked up the clubhouse after a meeting. He was found shot dead the following morning.
His family charged that the investigation into his death had not been "efficiently and property carried out" and that "no earnest effort was made to identify those who had carried out the murder".
Today's report lists a catalogue of failures and also highlights the sudden disappearance of the police file on the murder once it was known the ombudsman was carrying out an investigation.
Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde, who received the report before publication, admitted today there had been "significant failures" in the investigation.
He apologised to the Brown family and said he had set up a special team to reinvestigate the murder.
The Fine Gael leader, Mr Enda Kenny, said he fully endorsed the Ombudsman's call for the investigation to be reopened and asked the Taoiseach to raise the case directly with the British prime minister when they meet in Downing Street today.
"Nuala O'Loan's thorough and clear report raises very serious concerns which can only be met by a reopening of the investigation of this particular murder. The Taoiseach should seek an unambiguous commitment from Mr Blairthat this will happen.
"In more general terms, this report shows what can beachieved by a strong, independent Police Ombudsman with her own powers of investigation. It is another compelling reason why a similarly strong and independent system of dealing with complaints must be established in this State."
Mr Kenny said the Taoiseach should also use today's meeting to raise with Mr Blair the "failure of the British authorities to provide adequate co-operation to the Barron inquiry and the delay in the publication of the Cory report into allegations of security force collusion with terroristsin Northern Ireland".