FitzGerald says he has no recall of cabinet talks about Dublin/Monaghan bombings

FORMER Taoiseach Dr Garret FitzGerald said he does not recall details of any Cabinet conversations about the Dublin/Monaghan bombings in the months following the atrocity.

Dr FitzGerald, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Fine Gael/Labour Government of the time, told yesterday’s committee there may have been informal discussions but he could not recall the details.

But Margaret Irwin, secretary of Justice for the Forgotten, said she does not understand how a Cabinet minister was unable to recall any details of what was at the time the equivalent of, in terms of per head of population, of the numbers killed on September 11 in the US.