Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Representatives from the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation
Ms Róisín McGlone:
I am not going to talk specifically about one community or the other, but I will say two things about working with the groups I work with. The one thing they are all united on is that they did not want to happen what happened to them. We need to be very cognisant of the fact that people are suffering. The second point is that yes, very often I would be in groups where one of the things we try to record is the context of meetings over the period of years. Very often it is local context that comes up in the groups, not national or international. It will be about "Look what happened on the UTV news or the BBC Northern Ireland news", or "Did you see such and such did that on Twitter or Facebook?" or whatever. Referring back to what was said before, that is what we work on and that is what we have the conversations about, because it is out there and it is out in the open. Very often, the context within the groups I work with is very impactful impacted by local politics.