Bombing victims have suffered enough

IT is inconceivable that during all the negotiations and discussions regarding the date of the British queen’s visit to Ireland, no one took into account the importance of choosing a date that would not send out controversial signals.

To choose the anniversary of the Dublin Monaghan bombings — the biggest mass murder in the history of the State and single greatest atrocity of the Troubles north or south — would make one wonder one of two things. Do those in charge want the visit to be as controversial as possible?

Or does the British establishment want to really rub our noses in it?