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

On the same issue, the despised Tories have been driven out of power. The great fear that I and, I think, many people in England have is that, the more things change, the more things will stay exactly the same with Sir Keir Starmer. I find it grimly amusing that the leader of a supposedly left-wing party is referred to as Sir Keir Starmer. I suspect that indicates where his agenda will lie. It will not be a particularly radical one. We need to address issues like the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and the refusal of the British authorities to open the books on the information they have about almost certain British collusion in those bombings and indeed more general collusion with loyalist paramilitaries who carried out atrocities. Our ability to put that to Keir Starmer will be severely limited if we are guilty of the same cover-up. As I have done on several occasions since the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings - the worst single atrocity that took place during the period of the Troubles and that was undoubtedly carried out by agents working for the British state along with loyalist paramilitaries - I must ask the serious questions that the Irish authorities have to answer. They still not released the papers on a range of things, such as why the families of the victims were put under surveillance. The Garda apparently did not give the information it had to Operation Newham, which is looking into this. We have no credibility asking Keir Starmer about these things unless we open the files.

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