Bomb victim slams lack of Govt compensation

An Irishman injured in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings has slammed the Irish Government’s failure to provide him with compensation.

Thirty-four-year-old Edward O’Neill said he had been forced to seek money from the Northern Ireland Memorial Fund and to re-mortgage his home to fund an operation he is due to undergo in August to remove shrapnel from his body.

Mr O’Neill was four years old when he was injured in the bombing on Dublin’s Parnell Street on May 17, 1974.

His father was killed in the explosion and his brother was also injured.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice said a fund had been set up to help the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, but administration staff were still being appointed.