Bombings report – Hope for families of victims

The Oireachtas Justice Committee set up to examine the recommendations of the Barron Report advocated yesterday that a public tribunal should be set up in Northern Ireland to inquire into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

The committee also called for an inquiry into the role of the Garda Siochána to be conducted by a Commission of Investigation on the lines prescribed in a bill currently before the Oireachtas.

The Commission of Investigation would inquire into how documents went missing, why leads were not followed up and why garda investigations into the atrocities were wound down in less than two months.