25 September 2006

PUBLIC HEARINGS INTO THE BARRON REPORT ON THE BOMBING OF KAY'S TAVERN, DUNDALK ON 19th DECEMBER 1975

Public hearings before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights will commence tomorrow, Tuesday, 26th September on the above report. As well as the bombing of Dundalk, that of Castleblayney, Dublin Airport, the railway line at Baronrath Bridge, Co. Kildare, the Miami Showband murders and several other atrocities in which collusion is suspected, will be included.

Family members and survivors of these atrocities will tell their own personal stories to the Committee at tomorrow's session. On Wednesday, 27th September, Justice for the Forgotten and the Pat Finucane Centre will appear before the Committee and give presentations based on their substantive written submissions already furnished to the Committee.

Justice for the Forgotten believes that it is now possible to make links between four attacks in this State in the two-year period from May 1974 to March 1976, which claimed the lives of 38 people and that it is also possible to make a very much stronger case for the existence of direct collusion in these cases than ever before.

Contact: Margaret Urwin
Secretary
01-8554300
087-2237338