However, the US courts have ruled that the Price interviews should be handed over to the PSNI.

BBC: Boston College tapes: 'writer under no increased threat'

Mr. Hughes and Ms. Price had given extensive interviews to researchers for Boston College who compiled first-person accounts from ex-paramilitary members on both sides of the conflict.

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It was also set out in the hearing how Mr Moloney has claimed that his research colleague's interviews with Price contain nothing relevant to the Jean McConville murder investigation.

BBC: Boston College tapes: 'writer under no increased threat'

In media interviews, Dolours Price claimed to have been the person who drove Mrs McConville to her death.

BBC: Ex-IRA woman Dolours Price is found dead in Dublin

Police are seeking access to his interviews with Dolours Price.

BBC: Boston College tapes: 'writer not making big profit'

The BBC's Ireland correspondent Andy Martin said that those close to Boston College's Belfast Project say that the death of Dolours Price means that her recorded interviews will now simply be handed over as a matter of course.

BBC: Ex-IRA woman Dolours Price is found dead in Dublin

ICO's most recent market research, spanning 12 countries and 20, 000 interviews, confirms earlier findings that if the price is right, the demand will be there.

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