THE IRISH EMIGRANT Editor: Liam Ferrie - May 17, 2004 - Issue No.902 Dublin and Monaghan Bombings Inquest The inquest continues into the deaths of 33 people in the Dublin and  Monaghan bombings of 1974. On Tuesday John P. McMahon, a retired deputy  garda commissioner who had been chief superintendent of Cavan/Monaghan at  the time of the bombing, said that the UVF was suspected of carrying out  the atrocity and that it had received help from members of the Northern  security forces in manufacturing the devices. Mr McMahon did not believe  that loyalist paramilitaries had the capacity to prepare the  sophisticated bombs.  Retired garda superintendent William Kelly told the inquest that he had  been given the name of a UDR soldier who the RUC suspected of involvement  in the bombings. Unfortunately Mr Kelly no longer remembers the name of  the soldier or the RUC officer who gave him the information. The issue  was discussed at an informal meeting and he did not take notes.  A retired army bomb disposal expert, Commdt Patrick Triers, told the  inquest that two further bombs were found in Dublin about two months  after the explosions in May. One was found in a public toilet in Amiens  Street and the other in Busáras. In both cases the timing mechanism had  stopped. Commdt Triers said that the bombings required "military  experience" as "lighting a fuse was the height of technology of the  loyalist paramilitaries". When counsel for the garda commissioner  suggested to Commdt Triers that he did not have the expertise to support  this opinion, there was an outburst from the public gallery. Former  British intelligence officer Fred Holroyd shouted that the inquest was a  farce. He went on to claim that MI6 had tried to recruit Commdt Triers  because of his expertise. Coroner Dr Brian Farrell had earlier decided  that Mr Holroyd was inadmissible as a witness.  Another witness, Roger Keane, recalled seeing a white van, with a  Northern or British registration, acting suspiciously outside his place  of work on Dublin's Portland Row on the morning of the day of the  bombings. He phoned gardaí before and after the explosions and when the  van was later found the driver identified himself as a captain in  Britain's Territorial Army.  President Mary McAleese was in Monaghan on Sunday to unveil a monument to  the victims, 30 years after they died.