Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I reiterate that people who lost family members and people who were injured say to me that they are getting older and the truth has not been established. It is more than 50 years ago now that these atrocities were carried out. We have to get the truth established. There is a moral, international, legal obligation on the British Government to co-operate with investigations. I would also like the Tánaiste to insist to the British Government and the Northern Ireland authorities that there must be full co-operation with the Garda investigation into the Belturbet bombing of December 1972, in which two young teenagers, Geraldine O'Reilly and Patrick Stanley, were killed. There were horrific incidents that night, on 27 December 1972, in Clones and Pettigo as well. We need full co-operation by the Northern Irish authorities and the British authorities in the full and comprehensive investigations into those bloody atrocities, which cost the lives of innocent people.

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