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Irish call for British probe into ’74 bombings

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

The inquiry should take place in either Northern Ireland or Britain and be headed by a jurist of international stature, the Justice Committee stated last week.
The committee stated that its “preferred” option was an inquiry in the Republic. But it stopped short of endorsing such an inquiry on the grounds that the alleged perpetrators and witnesses to what was the largest single death toll of the troubles are in the North or Britain.
Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the day, May 17, 1974, on which 34 people died in a series of loyalist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan Town.
The committee urged the Irish government to consider taking an action before the European Court of Human Rights if it did not get cooperation from the British authorities.
It further called for a special commission to investigate why the investigation into the bombings by the Irish police, the Garda Siochana, was concluded within a couple of months of the atrocities with leads still not fully followed.
In addition, the committee said it wanted such a commission to investigate what departmental and Garda files relating to the bombings went missing and why. It found the manner in which the files were cared for, and their disappearance to have been an “astonishing” aspect to the Garda investigation.
The committee recommendations will be discussed soon by the D

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