The Taoiseach has said he expects the report on the forestry worker's murder to be publishes early in the New Year.

 Speaking to The Democrat this week, Mr Ludlow's nephew, Jimmy Sharkey, said he was not overly impressed by Barron's report on the Dublin bombings

 "I don't think this augurs well for the report into Seamus' murder. The part that. particularly worries me, and others, is the fact that files have gone missing.

 "Who's to say this isn't going to be the case with our report, that we won't be told vital files into Seamus' death went missing."

Jimmy's view is strengthened by the fact that County Coroner, Ronan Maguire, has experienced delays in receiving information for a second inquest into the Ludlow shooting.

Mr Maguire has said on a previous occasion that delays had been incurred as he was still waiting on definitive explanations as to the whereabouts of Seamus Ludlow's clothing and the bullets used in his killing and also on a particular investigative report on the murder.

Retired state pathologist, Dr John Harbison, who gave a deposition at the original inquest into the death has said he will attend the new inquest.