Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On 28 December 1972, a bomb that originated in County Fermanagh caused the deaths of Geraldine O'Reilly and Paddy Stanley in Belturbet, County Cavan, while injuring many other people. Unfortunately, nobody has ever been brought to justice for this heinous crime and there has never been a proper or thorough investigation in Northern Ireland into the persons responsible for this activity.

On 10 September, during oral questions to the Minister for Justice, I brought to the attention of the House new information that had come to me through the work of Dr. Edward Burke of the University of Nottingham regarding collusion between British state forces and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland relating to bombings in the southern Border counties. Will the Taoiseach pursue again with the Northern Ireland and British authorities the need to have proper, full and thorough investigations into the bombing in Belturbet? The least the O'Reilly and Stanley families deserve is the truth and the identity of the reprehensible people who caused the deaths of two young innocent people. It is never too late to get the truth.

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