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State abandons victims’ families

SOMETHING is rotten in the state of Ireland. It is now almost 30 years since 33 innocent people were savagely murdered and scores mutilated in the single biggest act of carnage committed in the course of the Troubles.

State abandons victims’ families

Fri, 27 Jun, 2003 - 01:00

Incredibly, only last week has the inquest into their deaths, inexplicably and abruptly suspended in 1974, been reopened.

Why has the Irish State and successive governments of all shades ignored and indeed compounded the suffering of the victims and their families? They only desire answers about why their loved ones died.

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