Gerry Adams

IRISH justice minister Charlie Flanagan has urged Gerry Adams to provide more information about the killing of prison officer Brian Stack.

The minister has claimed that the shooting of Mr Stack would have to have been sanctioned by the IRA's leadership.

He was shot as he left a boxing match in Dublin March 1983 and died 18 months later.

In 2013 Mr Adams organised a meeting between an IRA figure and Mr Stack's sons Brian and Oliver.

It has now emerged that Mr Adams has been interviewed by gardai about the part he played in facilitating the meeting.

In 2016 the former Sinn Féin president provided the names of four people he said could hold information about the killing.

Mr Flanagan said: "The wall of silence around the brutal murder of Brian Stack is indicative of the highly disciplined involvement of the Provisional IRA and now 21 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement I am calling on the republican movement and Sinn Féin to assist gardai in solving this callous crime.

"At a clandestine meeting organised by Gerry Adams it was alleged a number of names were mentioned and I’m calling on Mr Adams and the Sinn Féin membership to provide all and any information that have to gardai."

Last week Garda Commissioner Drew Harris apologised to the Stack family for failings in the original investigation.

Mr Stack's family have requested an independent inquiry into the shooting.