Irish Independent May 05, 2004 Witness never called to identify 1974 bomb blasts suspect  Caroline Crawford AN unidentified man was seen filming a Dublin street days before a bomb  blast ripped through the area killing 14 people.  The inquest into the deaths of 34 people killed in the Dublin-Monaghan  bombings heard that the man, described as 5'7"-5'8" and of slim build had  been standing beside a Louth-registered car on Talbot Street using a  movie camera to film Guiney's shop.  Two days later a car loaded with explosives was parked near the shop and  devastated the area when it exploded, killing 13 women and one man.  Simon Behan told the inquest h that despite having had a good view of the  man, he was never shown photographs which may have helped identify him.  The court heard that the man had continued to take pictures and had been  standing beside a bright red Fiat 850, registration number GIY 118. Mr  Behan told the court that he assumed the man owned the car.  After the explosion, Mr Behan informed gardai he had witnessed the man  filming the area where the blast had occurred because he thought it was  "significant".  Michael Thorton told the court he remembered being passed by a  Northern-registered Escort car, registration number 1385 WZ in Drogheda  at 12.30pm on the day of the blasts.  The car, which was later used in the explosions in Dublin, had a male  driver and no passenger.  A statement from Eamon Ennis told how he had noticed the same car at 4pm  on the Phibsborough Road in Dublin. At this stage there were two men in  the car. Both were aged between 25 and 30 and the driver was wearing a  black rally anorak with a red stripe.  After the explosions, both Mr Thorton and Mr Ennis made statements to the  gardai.  Supt Nicholas Kineally said he was a uniformed garda at the time and was  standing on the steps of Store Stree Garda Station when the Talbot Street  bomb went off.  He described seeing body parts on the ground and counting six bodies  lying on the right-hand footpath. "I do recall the following day actual  pieces of bodies being recovered from the roof of the building," he  added.  Chief Supt William Herlihy, who was an inspector at the time, was near  Talbot Street at the time and took charge of the scene.  He gave evidence that the scene of the bomb had been hosed down by  firemen before scenes examiners had an opportunity to examine it because  of the threat of a fire.  Barry O'Herlihy, whose uncle, John Walshe, was killed in the blast when  his car was blown through a shop window, said his mother was still deeply  affected by the death of her brother.  John Molloy told the court that he had been in Lowes pub on Talbot Street  when the car bomb had gone off. He described emerging from the building  and seeing dreadful scenes which lived with him for the last 30 years.