A plaque remembering two teenagers killed by a loyalist bomb in Co Cavan was unveiled today.
Minister of State Brendan Smith conducted the ceremony in Belturbet where Patrick Stanley (16), from Clara, Co Offaly and Geraldine O'Reilly (15), from near the town, died on December 28th 1972.
Brendan Smith
Eight people were seriously injured when the bomb went off on a busy evening on Belturbet's main street.
There has been strong condemnation of the Garda investigation of the attack which formed part of Mr Justice Henry Barron's report into the Dublin-Monaghan bombings.
Nobody was charged over the bombing and the Garda was unable to provide Mr Justice Barron's inquiry with a file on the investigation.
He found that that while there was reason for suspicion of British collusion in the attack, there was no actual evidence. Mr Justice Barron had also criticised British authorities for failing to co-operate fully with his inquiry.
Justice for the Forgotten, who have been campaigning on behalf of victims of bombings in the Republic in the early 70s, today called for the creation of a commission of inquiry into the incident.
Secretary of the group Margaret Urwin said: "There are questions that remain unanswered about the Garda investigation at the time ... there was a very firm suspect that does not appear to have been followed up."
Patrick died at a phone kiosk where he was phoning home to say he was staying the night in the town because the lorry he travelling in had broken down. Geraldine was on her way to a chip shop when she was killed.
Mr Smith, who is a local TD, said: "The reverberations of that atrocity are still felt today by the families, relatives and friends of those killed and by those injured, by the communities in Belturbet and in Clara, Co. Offaly, and, indeed, by the Island as a whole over the course of 30 years of violence."
The plaque was co-funded by the Remembrance Commission and Cavan County Council. Members of both families, Justice for the Forgotten and council officials attending today's ceremony.
On the same evening as the Belturbet attack, bombs exploded near Pettigo, Co Donegal and Clones, Co Monaghan, though no-one was killed.
Additional reporting PA