The Irish Examiner  December 10, 2003 Bombings report 'pulls no punches' By Harry McGee THE Barron Report into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings will be a "hard-hitting" document that will "pull no punches" in its findings.  Informed sources said Mr Justice Henry Barron's long-awaited report, which runs to 380 pages, will lay down the clearest possible findings on the circumstances surrounding both atrocities, which claimed 33 lives.  The sources said the report would go a long way towards addressing the issues of who was involved, whether or not there was collusion between the loyalist bombers and British security sources and what authorities here and elsewhere did and did not do leading up to and following the bombings.  Mr Justice Barron reported to the Government in October.  Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, who sanctioned the investigation in 2000, will meet with representatives of Justice for the Forgotten this afternoon and the report will be made public at 5.30pm.  It will bring to an end a four-year investigation that was delayed for over a year because of what one legal source described as "semi-detached co-operation" from the British authorities, who refused to hand over some of the relevant documents.  Justice for the Forgotten, the organisation representing survivors and the families of those who died, said yesterday all the indications pointed to a strong report that would reach strong conclusions.  However, it is concerned that a lack of co-operation may have prevented definitive findings.  "I would imagine there will be a reference in the report to the co-operation, or lack of it, of the British," said spokeswoman Margaret Urwin yesterday. "It may well be that [Mr Justice Barron] may not be able to reach a conclusion on collusion but we will be surprised if he does not. There's quite a lot of evidence in the public domain already on collusion between the loyalists and members of the security forces in the North," she said. As to the theory that it may have been carried out by renegade RUC and UDR officers, Ms Urwin said: "We do not believe in the bad apple theory. "You have to look at the level of collusion that was exposed in the Stephens' Report (into security force collusion with paramilitaries during the 1980s and 1990s)."  According to one legal source, there was a strong consensus that the Barron Report's conclusions would be damning, notwithstanding the obstacles the investigation team encountered.  However, the source said: "Judge Barron is a former judge of the Irish courts who has been investigating something that may concern the action of a foreign state. Ultimately, that creates difficulties."