McBrearty costs a ‘miscarriage of justice’

THE payment of legal costs to Justice Minister Michael McDowell and the Garda Commissioner at the Morris Tribunal while the McBrearty family are forced to pay their own costs is a miscarriage of justice, it was claimed yesterday.

Independent TD Finian McGrath said it was time for Mr McDowell to “get off the fence and stop messing around” with the McBrearty family. It is estimated that the family’s legal bill will run into hundreds of thousands of euro.

“As someone who was involved in the campaign for the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four, I think it’s a blatant miscarriage of justice the way the family have been treated.”