Dáil debates

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation

 

12:40 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The 50th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings will occur on 17 May. The families of the victims of the bombings are still looking for truth and justice. A film documentary opens tomorrow, which again looks at those bombings and the murders. The producer of the film "Anatomy of a Massacre" is in the Public Gallery. I met him and a relative of one of the victims. I refer to Cathy Doyle, whose sister, her husband and their two baby children, Jacqueline, 16 months and Anne Marie, four months, were murdered. That is just one terrible and tragic case relating to the slaughter that took place. There is widespread belief that there was British state collusion in that. However, the question they ask, as we approach the 50th anniversary is, will the State release the Garda files relating to this matter? I refer to the investigative files on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings which 29 Ministers for Justice have refused to release to the families.

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