Families of car bomb victims seek truth

FAMILIES of the 33 victims of the car bomb outrages believe the men responsible were allowed to escape justice for wider political reasons.

Families of car bomb victims seek truth

Margaret Urwin of the Justice for the Forgotten group says the Fine Gael-led Government at the time of the 1974 atrocities was so “terrified” the British would withdraw from the North and leave the Republic to cope with the resulting chaos that it adopted a “softly-softly” approach to cross-border investigations.

“There was pressure on the garda from above to destroy information and wind down the investigation, that is obvious.

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