The group representing the families of those who died in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974 is hopeful that the Commission for Victims of Violence will recommend that a judicial inquiry should be established into the bombings.
The secretary of Justice for the Forgotten, Ms Margaret Urwin, said yesterday that a delegation from the group, including its legal team, had met the chairman of the commission, the former Tanaiste, Mr John Wilson.
Ms Urwin said Mr Wilson had been told that the group wanted a judicial inquiry into the deaths of the 33 people in the bombings. The events surrounding the bombings had been swept under the carpet. It was the forgotten tragedy, she said, even though the two bombings constituted the worst disaster of the whole 30 years of the Troubles.
When announcing the establishment of the commission, the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, said it would hold discussions with all surviving victims of violence in the Republic which had a Northern perspective, including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.