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Mon 01 Jan 2009Silence the apt response to harrowing victims' stories
SKETCH:The Troubles may be over, but as a fringe meeting that focused on miscarriages of justice showed, the burden of the bereaved and victims of injustice remains, writes Dan Keenan
“EVERY MINUTE of every day my mind goes back to my child. Every minute of every day my mind goes back to that shed.” Barely audible and choking back tears Briege Quinn, mother of murder victim Paul Quinn who was beaten to death in a Co Monaghan farm building, made the most striking, the most poignant and the most effective speech in three days of debate.
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