Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

"We are dealing with acts of international terrorism that were colluded in by the British security forces". That is what the Oireachtas committee on justice said in 2005. That says it all. Bombs ended up on the streets of Dublin and Monaghan. There were 34 victims and a huge number of people were injured. Their families have been impacted all this time. This happened because of British state forces and their agents. It was facilitated. No one has looked into this to the degree it needs, outside of journalists and families, whom I welcome. I welcome all those who fought hard for justice over many years, which has been denied to this day. The British Government was never going to accept its role in the dirty war it executed in Ireland. My parents were getting the train to Dundalk and ten minutes before the bomb went off, they passed Talbot Street. One of their friends, whom they met there, arrived covered in debris from the bombs. That is the sort of good luck they had and the bad luck others had. Loyalists showed a capacity they did not have before or after. Those papers need to be released.

I also mention Seamus Ludlow and the Dundalk bombings. We need to make sure we look after those victims also. I also think of Hugh Waters, Jack Rooney and the victims the Glenanne gang made that night with its attack on Donnelly's bar. It was co-ordinated and controlled. There has been no justice for the families.

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