A call to lift the "veil of secrecy" over the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of May 1974 has been issued by the chairwoman of the Justice for the Forgotten group, which is campaigning for full disclosure about the atrocities in which 33 people and an unborn baby were killed.
Speaking ahead of tomorrow's anniversary of the no-warning, anti-civilian bomb attacks, Mrs Bernie McNally pointed out that the recent Stevens Report had exposed collusion between the Northern Ireland security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in the late 1980s.
"Are we to believe that collusion started in 1987 and stopped in 1989?" she continued. "If we think of collusion as being like a barrel whose lid has been lifted, then it is a deep barrel and in its depths lies the truth to the bombings of May 17th, 1974."
The Government had established an independent commission of inquiry under Mr Justice Henry Barron, which was expected to report in September. But she added: "He has not had the clear and full co-operation of the British government."