A man whose father was among 33 people killed by loyalist car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, called today for a public inquiry based on the Saville Tribunal investigating Bloody Sunday.
Mr Edward O'Neill said he had lost faith in the current inquiry by Mr Justice Henry Barron.
Mr O'Neill travelled to Derry's Guildhall to watch the proceedings of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry on its 207th day of sitting.
He was among a group of bereaved relatives and victims of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which met relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday in 1972 and in the 1998 Omagh bombing.
They intend to form a loose support group to put pressure on the authorities in London, Dublin and Belfast.
Mr O'Neill still has shrapnel embedded in his head, leg and elbow as a result of the car bomb which exploded in Dublin on May 17th, 1974. His father Edward was killed instantly and his mother Martha suffered the stillbirth of her seven month old baby in the months following the attack.
A second device was also detonated in the capital and another exploded in Monaghan on a day which saw the biggest loss of life in the history of Northern Ireland's Troubles.
But Mr O'Neill believes the Barron Inquiry will not succeed in determining the truth behind claims that British security services colluded with loyalists to plant the bombs.
He said: "The Irish Government are not interested. We had 33 people die, and not one arrest, not one person questioned, not one person ever charged.
"I am sure Mr Justice Barron is an honourable man but I have no confidence in the Barron Inquiry. While I am not questioning his integrity I believe he will not be allowed to investigate the bombings properly.
"What I would like to see is the establishment of a public inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings."
But he added: "I cannot see that we are ever going to get this level of transparency."
Mr Justice Barron is set to report in the autumn after recently receiving what Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern called an "enormous amount" of security files from the British authorities.
PA