Mary McAleese: Victims' families impatient for change decades after killings

Decades on from bloody killings during Northern Ireland’s troubles many victims’ families remain impatient for change to ensure hatred does not pass down through generations, the former Irish president said.

The pain felt by loved ones of those who died in the violence that gripped the country is still fresh, Mary McAleese said, as she addressed a conference on the legacy of the conflict.