THERE has been a call for a fresh review of the 1970 'arms crisis', 50 years after the scandal saw two Irish government ministers sacked over an alleged conspiracy to supply arms to the IRA.
Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey were stood down by then Taoiseach Jack Lynch over the arms importation allegations.
The purchase was said to have been made with £100,000 the Irish government set aside as a "relief fund" for victims of the unrest in the north.
Mr Blaney later saw charges against him dropped, while Mr Haughey was acquitted of conspiring to import arms following two trials.
Victims campaigner Kenny Donaldson, of the South East Fermanagh Foundation, said they believed the trial to have been a "whitewash".
"Families on both sides of the border and across the community continue to be frustrated by a state which shrugs off its role within the period referred to as 'the Troubles'," he said.
"We call today for a fresh and independent review to be completed into the events of the arms crisis."
Mr Donaldson asked the government what has been done to take forward recommendations of the Smithwick Tribunal, which concluded in 2013 that Garda officers colluded in the IRA murders of two senior RUC officers as they crossed the border in 1989.
