David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

God knows, I am not anti-British. I am half English, albeit my father died when I was five years old and I hardly knew him. As such, I was not greatly influenced by the English genetic disposition part of my character. However, I would hate to think the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six would have been extradited to England during the period in which they were subject to a gross injustice and the most appalling police malpractice. We have to be very careful in dealing with extradition law that we do not extradite people in situations where their human rights might be threatened, regardless of whether the countries concerned are signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights.