Robinson: Paisley on ‘dangerous road’ over Troubles remarks

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson has accused his predecessor Ian Paisley of going down a “dangerous road” with his claims that the Government provoked one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles.

Mr Paisley suggested the Republic administration had a part to play in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, declaring: “The political leaders brought it on themselves.”

Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) set off the two car bombs in the Republic at the height of a violent loyalist strike across Northern Ireland by the so-called Ulster Workers’ Council which ended with the collapse of the first power-sharing executive in Belfast 40 years ago.