'The attack was one of the worst atrocities ever committed on this island and yet half a century later, the families of the victims are still seeking justice'
The 17 May, 1974 is a day this country should never forget. It was our darkest hour when 33 innocent people and an unborn baby were brutally murdered on the streets of Dublin and Monaghan.
Successive Irish Governments for various political and diplomatic reasons have failed dismally to get to the truth. The Gardai themselves from the very beginning made an absolute mess of the investigation. The Ulster Volunteer Force, the UVF years later claimed responsibility for the attack. Some names of the people involved have been put out there in the public domain. This country should have been kicking down the door of the British Embassy in Dublin demanding answers but it did nothing.
In fact the Gardai on so many occasions did their best to put the Provos out of business and gave their British counterparts all the help they needed. But when it came to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings the British establishment and the forces of that state did absolutely nothing to help. The thinking at the time was if bombs went off in the Republic with severe casualties that the Irish Government would come down hard on the IRA. There was also a belief that we would get to feel how people in Northern Ireland felt with bombs going off all over the place.
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