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I am writing on behalf of the brothers and sisters of Dennis Heaney to express our concerns about your repeated intention to retain elements of the Legacy Act introduced by the former Conservative Government on 1 May 2024.

The daughter of a man murdered by Loyalists in 1977 has demanded the immediate reinstatement of investigations by the Police Ombudsman. The following Irish Times article by Freya McClements was published on October 9 2024.

Below is the letter that was handed to Tánaiste Micheál Martin at a meeting in Dublin on 18th September 2024 by Deirdre McHugh, outlining her concerns regarding the Legacy Act and ICRIR, and clearly state what would meet her family's needs as victims. We are publishing this letter in full with...

I welcome the announcement of the Secretary of State in the House of Commons today, that an independent statutory public inquiry will be established into the murder of my husband, Patrick Finucane. After 35 years of campaigning for such an inquiry, I believe this announcement represents a...

We are writing to you as representatives of organisations supporting victims and survivors of the recent conflict. It has come to our attention that your conference intends to platform Ms Lesley Carroll from the ICRIR on the theme of trauma and resilience approaches of the Independent Commission for...

The Attorney General, Brenda King, has today ordered a fresh inquest into the death of Billy McGreanery in Derry in 1971. This follows the disappointing decision yesterday by the Public Prosecution Service that the soldier who shot Billy dead would not be prosecuted in relation with the killing...

One of my first memories of Barney is of him entering a room at Benburb Priory in County Tyrone in 2000, he was there to attend a meeting which had been organised by the Pat Finucane Centre. This older man walked through the door and just lit up the room. Even though he was there to meet others who...

Lawyers representing the family of Annette McGavigan issued a pre-action protocol letter against the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) yesterday, requesting a prosecutorial decision regarding the soldier who shot their sister Annette before the 01 May deadline. Annette McGavigan was 14 years old when...

Two widows, whose husbands were murdered by the UDA in separate incidents in 1976, have accepted substantial settlements in cases brought against the MOD & PSNI. Mary Loughrey, widow of Jim Loughrey, and Marie Newton, widow of John Toland, settled their cases for an undisclosed six figure sum.

During the course of their investigation into the Glenanne series of murders (Operation Newham), the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) sent a file relating to a former RUC officer for consideration to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS). The PPS has now decided that there is insufficient...