Barron Report - Relatives are owed public inquiry

HAVING been denied justice for close on three decades, the relatives of victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings deserve nothing less than a sworn public inquiry into the atrocities.

The Government can no longer resist demands for an in-depth probe into the shocking events of 1974 when 33 innocent people were killed in broad daylight on a balmy May afternoon.

Only a stone-hearted administration would turn a deaf ear to the plight of relatives who yesterday recounted their harrowing experience at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice.