Mr. Wally Kirwan:

I will make one point I intended to refer to but forgot. Dr. McKee touched glancingly on this. He and I collaborated with another official in drawing up the dossier John Bruton gave to Tony Blair about what was then the new evidence relating to Bloody Sunday in Derry in January 1972. Dr. McKee did most of the work on that. It was a very powerful confidence-building factor at the time when Tony Blair decided to set up the Saville inquiry which, of course, vindicated the people who were shot on Bloody Sunday. Like Dr. McKee, I was in Guildhall Square, Derry on the day that Prime Minister Cameron made his apology, when somebody among the relatives put their thumb up behind the stained glass windows of the Guildhall, and it was a very exhilarating moment. That was a very important thing that Dr. McKee did. He did most of the work on that dossier. I am glad that I have some opportunities to again co-operate with Dr. McKee in his capacity as ambassador to Canada because he and I have connections to do with Newfoundland, which is the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland.