Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Legacy Issues: Discussion

Mr. Raymond McCord:

I brought a couple of documents along. The irony is that we are supposed to be living under the Good Friday Agreement where we are at peace and have a ceasefire.

There was a trial at the Belfast court last year for the Convie and Fox murders, which were carried out by the same unit that murdered my son. I went to support the Convie and Fox families and sat in the court with them. To put it the legal way, there was a clash between me and the UVF people who came to support the defendant. Members may have seen in the newspapers that they came into a court of law wearing hoods and masks. We are living in a place where we are supposed to have peace and the men in suits in these organisations are still receiving funding. I raised this the other year. The week after the court case, in November, the police called to my house-----

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