Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement

Mr. Michael Monaghan:

I am sorry, Deputy Costello. The Deputy talked about the Good Friday Agreement and all the rest of it. The reason is that the likes of ourselves - you can call it what you want - have spoken out against this. Many people are still hiding behind doors and are scared to speak out. All they want out of this is to give our children and grandchildren a better life. We have already experienced this. I look left and right every morning when I go out the door. It is a habit; it is post-traumatic stress. It is everything. That is just the way it is, in Belfast especially. When the Troubles were going on, when going to work you did not know whether you would be coming home. In 1993, 97 people were killed. That included the security forces - Catholics and Protestants. From January to August in 1994 before the ceasefire was declared, 69 people were killed. That was in the two years coming to the end. They knew it was coming to the end yet people were still getting murdered.

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