The family of a murdered Donegal councillor today renewed their calls for an independent public inquiry into his killing 15 years ago by loyalist paramilitaries.
Eddie Fullerton's children said many questions remained unanswered about the night loyalist gunmen crossed the Border and burst into their parents' home in Buncrana and shot their father dead in front of their mother in May 1991.
Allegations of collusion between the loyalist death squad and British intelligence and questions about the role played by gardaí prior to the murder and in the investigation that followed have dogged the incident since.
Three gardaí centrally involved in the investigation were discredited by the Morris tribunal last year, and councils on both sides of the Border have backed the family's calls for a public inquiry.
The family renewed their appeal for a meeting with Minister for Justice Michael McDowell as they gathered to mark the anniversary of the death at Muff in Co Donegal.
"Given the level of corruption that has been exposed within the Buncrana/Donegal gardaí and their link to our father's case, the revelations of collusion exposed by the Stevens Inquiry team and reputable journalists, as well as new allegations that some members of the RUC received prior notice of the murder, we call once again on Minister McDowell to concede to our demand for a full, independent and transparent public inquiry, and chaired by a person of international reputation," they said.
The family said Mr McDowell had never responded to their previous requests for a meeting.
But now, following the death of Eddie's son and spokesman for their campaign, Albert, in a car crash in March, they were renewing the efforts of the Eddie Fullerton Justice Committee (EFJC).
"The EFJC will be meeting over the next few weeks to agree a strategy for the way ahead," they said. "We will renew our efforts to engage with the British and Irish Government representatives, including Minister McDowell and the Police Ombudsman, Nuala O'Loan, and put to them our key demands.
"We the Fullerton family, the people of Buncrana and Inishowen, and the Irish people as a whole deserve to know the truth about the murder of our father, a democratically- elected representative," they said.
"It is unacceptable that for 15 years the Government has failed to treat the murder of our father, an elected representative with the seriousness that it deserves. It has failed us all."