Ms Anne Cadwallader:

We have a suspicion, and it may not be fair, that when the Irish Government or Ministers meet their British counterparts, it is very much a tick-box exercise. Maybe it is unfair and I am not being reasonable. We are obviously not in the room when the meetings happen. For all we know, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade bangs the table and makes demands, is tough and negotiates well. We do not know because we are not there. We do sometimes fear, however, that when Ministers from the Irish Government meet British Ministers, there is not quite the sense of outrage and passion that we have; that economic and other issues take precedence and the rights of people in Northern Ireland - that have been so trampled on - are not something that really gets the blood up. Whether that is expressed through hard negotiations or banging the table, we sometimes fear it is just a question of asking, as the last item on the agenda, what the British are going to do about the Dublin-Monaghan bombings and on hearing that they are not going to do anything, simply agreeing to meet again in the following month. That might be very unfair.