Micheál Martin: “That's a very serious issue. The gardaí are pursuing that matter and we await developments on that.”

There are no democratic or humanitarian values which are flexible enough to justify the scale of death, destruction and displacement we have seen.

I think that we need to work around the communication of all of that.

The British-Irish Council offers an opportunity to meet with our nearest neighbours to exchange ideas and discuss issues that affect us all, a core component of the Good Friday Agreement.

I certainly will take the issue that you've raised in respect of this letter that was written by him in the 1970s forward, and see how best to examine that.