Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Judge Smithwick has drawn his conclusions. We all need to read the report in full and draw our own conclusions. People will make up their own minds on this report.

Sinn Féin has supported these inquiries on the basis that the families had the right to full disclosure of all relevant information. However, what Judge Smithwick described as collusion is very different in form and scale from the collusion that occurred in the North. During 30 years of war, the British state was responsible for structured, institutionalised and co-ordinated state-run collusion and death squads which led to the deaths of hundreds of citizens, including those killed in the Dublin, Monaghan and Dundalk bomb attacks.