Publications

On this page you will find links to all major publications and documents of relevance to the Justice for the Forgotten campaign.

These include the reports of the two private inquiries instigated by the Irish government (the Barron Reports and the MacEntee Report), decisions of the European Court of Human Rights relating to these, submissions by Justice for the Forgotten to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights and other documentation.


 

Barron, MacEntee and the European Court of Human Rights

The Barron Inquiries

Since the broadcast of the 'Hidden Hand' documentary in 1993, which deepened the concerns held by the victims of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings regarding collusion by the British security forces, the Irish goverment have set up two private inquiries into the allegations.

An Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings was established in January 2000 and was finally concluded in 2003. The report of the Commission of Inquiry (the Barron Report) was published on 10 December 2003.

It was published, through the mechanism of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, as an Interim Report. A sub-committee of the Joint Oireachtas Committee was then established to consider, including in public session, the Report and produce recommendations.These recommendations were published as a Final Report. (See below for both).