Bombings victim calls for public inquiry

A WOMAN badly injured in a 1972 explosion and again in the Dublin bombing that killed 27 people two years later has called for a public inquiry into the events that left her suffering three decades of physical pain and depression.

Joan Ann Hourigan, who emigrated to the United States in the mid-80s, was 17 years of age when she was caught up in a bomb blast at Dublin’s Eden Quay in December 1972. She suffered serious head and shoulder injuries when the car bomb exploded just yards from her.

Then in May, 1974, still only 18, she was one of dozens of people injured when a car bomb exploded in Nassau Street.