What passes for justice — then and now

DR FINTAN LANE languishes in Limerick Prison and looks set to be kept there over Christmas, as a result of participating in a peaceful protest at Shannon airport.

Meanwhile, after 30 years, not one of the organisers, foot-soldiers or those who covered up, failed to investigate or failed to assist the investigation at a political level has been jailed, charged or even questioned about the worst mass murder in the history of the State.

This is what passes for justice in Ireland today.

Despite facilitating the US and being named by George Bush as members of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Irish firms are still barred from reconstruction work in Iraq. And, despite the Government continuing to co-operate, to the tune of billions of Irish taxpayers’ euro, with those suspected of involvement in the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, British forces continued not only to collude but direct the loyalist gangs who murdered Pat Finucane and other Irish citizens, as the latest Stevens report confirms.

Ray Corcoran,

16, Hollywell,

Ballymun,

Dublin 11.

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