Relatives of victims of atrocities urge governments to tell truth

TWENTY-NINE years after the greatest atrocity in the history of the state, relatives of the victims of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings are still looking for the truth.

Yesterday, campaign group Justice for the Forgotten called on the British and Irish governments to tell the truth about the atrocities committed on May 17 1974. Tomorrow marks the fateful day when three car bomb blasts killed 26 people in Dublin. Another explosion in Monaghan later the same day claimed a further seven lives.

Even though nobody has been blamed for the bombings that also left hundreds injured, it has long been suspected that the bombings were carried out by loyalist paramilitaries.