The government has received the Smithwick Tribunal report into allegations that members of the garda force colluded in the murder of two senior Northern Irish policemen.

The Tribunal investigated the deaths of two RUC officers in an IRA ambush in 1989 after they left a meeting at Dundalk garda station.

It had been alleged that gardai or other State employees passed details of the victims' movements to the IRA.

The report will not be published until it is studied by government lawyers.

The results of the eight-year probe are expected to be published within weeks once the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) examines his conclusions.

The Smithwick Tribunal was set to investigate alleged links between gardai or civilians working in the force and the IRA ambush of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan on March 20th in 1989.

Both were killed on the south Armagh border shortly after a meeting with a senior gardaí in Dundalk.