Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre

Mr. Michael McConville:

People do not realise the heartache it caused. They ripped our family apart. I had to be in a home for five years of my life, not knowing my brothers or sisters beside me. I grew up not knowing them. They took everything away from me. My children are suffering because they had no grandmother or anything else. These people need to know the heartache they caused everyone.

Going back to Robert Nairac again, his sisters and family did nothing to these people. That says a lot about what they did. If they were decent people, they should be haunted by the bodies of Robert Nairac, Columba McVeigh and Joe Lynskey, and other people they have not claimed but who they killed and secretly buried. They need to come to terms with that, admit the truth and do the right thing if there is any decency in them whatsoever.