For the record

THE Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, continues to refuse access to Garda files to the families of the victims of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings and of Seamus Ludlow, who was murdered by loyalists with British forces connections.

They are denied access on the basis that they are ‘confidential.’

Yet ‘confidential’ Garda files can be quoted by the same minister using Dáil privilege and on the front page of a newspaper.

It seems that smearing the Centre for Public Inquiry, which was trying to find the truth behind Government scandals, such as the Mayo gas giveaway, was more important to the Fianna Fáil /Progressive Democrats coalition than finding the truth behind the worst massacre in the history of the State and similar sinister killings.

Dessie Ellis

19 Dunsink Road

Finglas

Dublin 11.