U2 highlighting injustice for relatives of victims of Dublin/Monaghan bombings

[T Fearon]

Good to see this reaching a global audience.Shame on successive free state governments who have at best ignored these atrocities or at worst have been complicit with the UK to cover them up, then hypocritically get holier than thou about IRA victims

[The Subbie]

What are U2 doing Tony?

[Tony Baloney]

the band had kicked off its two-year world tour in Canada this week playing the single Raised by Wolves, which focuses on the bombings. Throughout the 70-date tour, images of the victims of the bombings will be projected on screens when the song is played.

[give her dixie]

Justice for the Forgotten and The Pat Finucane Centre welcome U2's decision to highlight the plight of the bereaved families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings as their world tour began in Vancouver, Canada last night (Thursday 14 May).

The band's song "Raised by Wolves" which was released last year deals with the direct and personal impact of that day, nearly 41 years ago, when three no-warning car bombs exploded in Dublin and a fourth caused devastation in Monaghan, on 17 May 1974, killing 34 people including a full-term unborn baby – the greatest loss of life on a single day of the Northern Ireland conflict.

During the performance of the song, images of the event and photographs of the victims are shown on stage. By including Justice for the Forgotten in the official tour programme of the band's 'iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE' world tour and by highlighting that no one has been brought to justice, U2 is joining the thousands of voices, including the entire Irish parliament, who have called for the release of classified documents on the bombing to an agreed judicial third party.

The families of those killed and those who survived the bomb explosions have welcomed U2's principled decision.

Dubliner Pat Fay, whose father, Patrick, a civil servant aged 47, was killed in the Parnell Street explosion, said: -"One of the most popular bands in the world is lending its support to our call for truth. The 'iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE' world tour will last for up to two years. There will be a focus on the Dublin & Monaghan Bombings at every concert from New York and Turin to Berlin and Barcelona. This means that the world will finally hear about the huge injustice inflicted upon families who had already suffered devastating loss."

Bernadette Joly, who was aged 23 when she sustained serious injuries to both arms from flying shrapnel in the Talbot Street bomb, said: -'We greatly welcome U2's decision to highlight our loss and our need for justice and truth. At last, we feel the world will listen to our plight and demand that London open up the files and set the truth free.

http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org/

[michaelg]

Good to see this reaching a global audience.Shame on successive free state governments who have at best ignored these atrocities or at worst have been complicit with the UK to cover them up, then hypocritically get holier than thou about IRA victims

How exactly have the "UK" covered these atroities up and then, hypocritically, been holier than now about IRA victims?  Enniskillen / Shankill bombs good examples when they were "holier than now" about IRA victims?

[Rossfan]

UK Govt agents involved in Dublin and Monaghan atrocities. Non Governmental paramilitaries involved in Enniskillen/Shankill atrocities.
UK Govt refuses to make info available to enquiry into Dublin/Monaghan mass murders

[T Fearon]

So called Irish govt way to passive about this letting UK govt off the hook

[The Subbie]

So called Irish govt way to passive about this letting UK govt off the hook

The government at the time really covered themselves in glory, surprisingly they were a FG govt.
Investigation wound up after a matter of weeks, files "lost" , evidence destroyed , cui bono indeed.

The most disgusting thing of all was witnessing the branch video recording the relatives of the Monaghan bomb protesting in the diamond in Monaghan town.

Not one of these people would be in any way politically radical but were treated as such by successive governments.

Obviously cant do so now as Im in oz but when I was at home and round election time the FG'S would come knocking or canvassing on the street I  always made a point of putting them over it, I'll move home someday and I'll do the same again, the f**kers must never be allowed to forget what they allowed to happen, what they and who they colluded with afterwards and the disgraceful way they treated relatives of those that were murdered.

[T Fearon]

Exactly.Hypocrisy also of both parties attacking Sinn Fein over the "Disappeared" etc (and I'm not condoning this in any way),but of all the atrocities in the troubles the relatives of the Dublin Monaghan victims have been treated most shamefully