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Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...in this House and across official Ireland, collusion was presented as republican propaganda and people were given no succour. Anybody who dared to suggest it was likely to get a visit from the Garda special branch. That was part of the core aim of successive Governments. After Dublin and Monaghan, other bombings in Dublin, the bombing of Castleblayney, the bombing of Belturbet, the...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...That is something this Government must recognise and acknowledge. If the British military intelligence services had such influence on loyalists at that time, when we look at what happened with the Garda investigation and the actions in this State, we must wonder whether they also had influence here, and if that is part of the reasons for all of this. The families and their...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Joan Collins: ...and yet we forgot it. We absolutely forgot it over the last 50 years in many ways. The families and the Justice for the Forgotten group have been leading a long campaign. The film explains how the Garda investigation was mysteriously disbanded just seven weeks after the attacks, with crucial evidence sent North to the RUC being subsequently lost or destroyed or both, while the official...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...in the dark with no answers and many were forced to deal with the trauma of the day without any support or information. Shockingly, not one survivor or bereaved family member was interviewed by the Garda in Dublin or Monaghan after the atrocity or to date. Jon Boutcher, who initially headed up Operation Denton, was the first policeman to knock on people's doors as part of his...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Michael Collins: ...security and intelligence services have been made over the years. However, previous investigations have been stifled by the British Government's refusal to release key intelligence documents. The Garda investigation into the bombings was mysteriously disbanded just seven weeks after the attacks, with crucial evidence sent North to the RUC being subsequently lost or destroyed, while the...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...for. It is not there because we inherited that old system, but by God did we make it better and make it better for the system. To hell with na daoine na tíre, to hell with the people of Ireland. We had a young man killed in a Garda station in Clonmel, Brian Rossiter, almost 25 years ago. Fight for justice? You cannot fight the city hall or the system. The system crawls in around...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mick Barry: ...likely involved. Would the publication of documents prove this to be the case? I believe that very clearly they would and that there was involvement there. The Barron report criticised the Garda investigation and said the investigators stopped their work prematurely. Why was this the case? Why have all of the files not been handed over? Why did the Irish political establishment...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...reactions to it were so feeble, so small and so reduced that there was no effort really in the State to try to get to the truth and justice in this regard. Incredibly, we had a situation where the Garda investigation was closed down after ten weeks. I am told that many of the survivors and the people who were there on the day never received a knock on the door from the Garda at the time...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...But the questions I want to ask are about what this State owes to the families and the victims. How could it be – the State surely has some information about this – that the investigations here were closed down after ten weeks? Why are the Garda files missing? These have never been seen and are generally believed to have been destroyed. Why was the forensic evidence of...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...terror in the Irish public. They were straight out of Kitson's war manual. People need to go back and look at that. Many questions remain unanswered. I welcome the new docu-film by Fergus Dowd and others, "Anatomy of a Massacre", showing in the IFI at the moment. It highlights the failings of the Garda investigation. Those questions need answers. The British need to once and for all...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...group. My sister refers to the 1972 bombing as "The forgotten forgotten". I recall, as a schoolboy, visiting my sister and her husband in the Mater Hospital. It was surrounded at the time by armed gardaí because also in the hospital at the exact same time was Seán Mac Stíofáin, chief of staff of the Provisional IRA. He was on hunger strike. I remember the terror of...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: ...loyalist groups right up until 1994, that the British state security services did not know the attack was being carried out. Mr. Justice Barron, as has been mentioned, was very critical of the Garda investigation. His report found the investigation was limited and short in duration and that it was extraordinary that an investigation into an atrocity of this size and scale could, or...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...are honest about where we as a government and a society have fallen short on what we owe the victims and survivors of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. The Barron Report made serious criticisms of the original Garda investigation into the bombings, including the failure to make full use of information obtained and weaknesses in forensic analysis. It remains the case that 50 years on from...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...and resource that was not available to loyalist gangs without the direct support of British state agents. Any reasonable person would have expected both the Irish and British Governments and An Garda Síochána to move swiftly to apprehend the perpetrators and assert the full facts, but that did not happen. In debates in this House immediately after the bombings, speakers seemed...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...hand agents of the British state. Collusion is no illusion, yet the British state continues to deny that the bombings in Dublin and Monaghan were part of its dirty war in Ireland. These inspirational families have also been profoundly failed by this State. The initial Garda investigation as so limited in remit as to render it useless from the get-go. Incredibly, it was wrapped up by...