Seanad debates

Wednesday, 20 November 2002

Northern Ireland: Statements.

 

I ask the Taoiseach to get some of his officials to look at a recording of the "Spotlight" programme broadcast last night. It looked at the Claudy bombing and was one of the most devastatingly brilliant programmes I have seen. Let us have a commitment to truth and reconciliation, because until we have real truth and real reconciliation, we will not go anywhere. We must bear in mind the sympathies and feelings of those unfortunate people on both sides of the community who were deliberately blown to pieces by the IRA. They have always tried to get away with it. It was noticeable that when Martin McGuinness, who was praised in the Taoiseach's speech, was asked for an interview, he refused. He issued a statement saying he knew nothing about it. We all know what his position was in the North of Ireland at that point.

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