UN could chair NI truth commission, says Adams

United Nations officials could chair an independent truth commission probing killings carried out during the North’s Troubles, Gerry Adams suggested tonight.

As he shared a public platform with the father of a 12-year-old boy killed in the 1993 IRA Warrington bombing, the Sinn Féin president said the formation in May of a power sharing executive of unionists and nationalists at Stormont was a remarkable achievement following the violence and division which dogged the North for decades.