The Forgotten have their say in quest for justice

ONE day in May 1974. Over the years the horror of that day — the 33 lives it claimed, how it blighted the lives of the survivors and bereaved — receded from public consciousness.

In the intervening years it flickered on the radar screens, momentarily remembered before being dispatched again to the distant past. The name of the victims' group which has campaigned for justice in the face of official and public indifference could not be more accurate Justice for the Forgotten.

But yesterday went some way to changing that. In the course of a remarkable and heart-rending day, 26 people, injured or bereaved by the Dublin and Monaghan car bombings told their stories to an Oireachtas sub-committee.