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Live BlogTHE GROUP REPRESENTING survivors of the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings has urged the British government to release its files on the bombings as a “significant gesture of reconciliation” between Britain and Ireland.
Justice for the Forgotten has called for the files relating to the bombings to be released by David Cameron’s administration to mark the visit of Queen Elizabeth to the Republic of Ireland next month – a visit which will coincide with the 37th anniversary of the bombings.
34 people, including an unborn child, were killed when four bombs – three in Dublin and one in Monaghan town – were detonated within two hours of each other. The resulting loss of life on May 17, 1974 was the highest of any event during The Troubles, but nobody has ever been prosecuted over the blasts.
The Ulster Volunteer Force claimed responsibility for the attacks in 1993.
The Irish government commissioned an investigation into the bombings, led by the late Supreme Court justice Henry Barron, whose report criticised the British government’s “surprising” refusal to allow access to its files.
Justice for the Forgotten spokeswoman Margaret Urwin told TheJournal.ie that her group had been buoyed by the apology offered by David Cameron for the actions of British forces on Bloody Sunday, but was disappointed about the lack of any progress in relation to the 1974 bombings.
“The Irish government hasn’t really been pursuing it as it should have been,” Urwin said. “We need our own government to pursue this on our behalf.”
The group has met with TDs from Sinn Féin and the independent ranks, and will shortly meet with Fianna Fáil, but is hoping to meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny so that the matter can be added to the agenda of his next meeting with Cameron, due in the coming weeks.
Barron’s report was presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, and later prompted the Dáil to unanimously pass a motion calling on the British government to make its files on the bombings available to an “independent, international judicial figure”.
So far, however, no release has been agreed to.
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And dump its financial crap on the taxpayer. But oh no we couldnt have mortgage write downs for regular home owners. The cost of this alone would probably give back financial control to thousands of people who made much less investment error than the so called professionals.
Exactly ! How much will this buy out cost us this time ?
Hopefully they now reduce their SVR by 1.5-2% so that I can spend some of my hard earned cash on myself and family
Hopefully the PTSB will now lower their disgraceful SVR to the same amount as the other state owned bank AIB.. this bank has got some amount of help from the government its the least they could do for us…
It’s a nice thought, but in reality PTSB don’t give a flying f€ck about the mortgage customers being screwed on their SVR and neither do the government.
I’d love to be proven wrong on this but I won’t be holding my breath and I say that as one of those customers.
So will the Government do the same for me? Take my debts, leave me with my assets and money and I can live happy ever after?
How worst off could we be if we just left these banks which are no different than any business, go under?
Move the trackers to IBRC or the “formerly known as Anglo” bank .. The same bank FG said they’d disband if we voted them in. Will they reduce the SVR now as it was kept high to pay for the costly trackers. Will it be trackers which are 0.5% -1% above ECB rate and still performing or just those in arrears? Either way the taxpayer is straddled with the burden while the bank can massage its books to look profitable.
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