Grief and anger mark 50th anniversary of Dublin-Monaghan bombings

President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Dublin - Monaghan bombings on Friday. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins Photos

The worst terrorist atrocity of the Troubles, which left 34 people dead and 300 injured, has left a legacy which went beyond the pain and grief caused by the no-warning bombs. The President directed his ire, in particular, at the British government which signed up to the Stormont House Agreement in 2014. It was supposed to deal with the legacy issue of the Troubles and was followed a year later by the setting up of the International Commission for Information Retrieval. In 2020 the two governments recommitted to the Stormont House Agreement under the New Decade, New Approach agreement.

The President was applauded loudly by the crowd when he said that a strategy of “feigned amnesia is simply not an option” and the 50th anniversary was a “salutary reminder of the urgent need to find an ethical and comprehensive way to deal with the legacy of the Troubles in their totality”. The wreathes, cards and messages piled up on the memorial located at Talbot Street just 100m from where a bomb went off on May 17th, 1974. One photo frame spelled out in scrabble letters, “fifty years gone, Dublin-Monaghan murdered RIP” along with photographs with the O’Brien family who were wiped out in an instant that day – John and his wife Anna O’Brien and their children Jacqueline and Anne Marie .

Her daughter, Wendy, survived and was present at the commemoration with her son Tyler . Wendy was a year and 10 months old when she was found wandering the streets after the bombing.

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