The Irish State has not investigated, let alone prosecuted Troubles killings cases since the Belfast Agreement, despite endless demands for greater transparency from London, a member of Northern Ireland’s legacy commission has said.
“There has been an amnesty there, not by the law, but in practice. It’s been governmental policy, prosecutorial policy not to prosecute,” said Professor Brice Dickson of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery.
The Garda Síochána is “only now” setting up a legacy investigations unit when “it should have been doing that for the last 27 years, or so”, Prof Dickson said at Queen’s University Belfast.
“I hope the Irish Government will do th
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