'Closure' for IRA victims

Madam, - I support Anthony Hartnett's call (August 30th) for inquiries into the deaths of those killed by all organisations in…

Madam, - I support Anthony Hartnett's call (August 30th) for inquiries into the deaths of those killed by all organisations in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

It is clear that cases which have not been co-opted to a political agenda have little chance of being investigated in a reasonably fair and transparent way. The hope expressed that the family of Jean McConville will find "closure" is really a hope that the relatives will now fade away and be quiet. Why should the McConville family not get the same "closure" as the families of the Bloody Sunday victims or the family of Pat Finucane? Was it not Gerry Adams who said there is "no hierarchy of victims"? - Yours, etc.,

TOBY JOYCE,

Navan,

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Co Meath.