McDowell and Conroy should do the honourable thing - go now

WHAT a sorry excuse for acknowledgement of such a gross injustice to the McBrearty family was uttered by our Justice Minister, Michael McDowell.

Almost begrudgingly he admitted that the state owed such an apology offered to the McBrearty family, but immediately turned it into an outrageous attempt at damage limitation, which sought to spread the blame of this scandal to another government.

Hopefully, when the state comes to make a formal apology, it will be couched in a more appropriate form of words.