“If you think this system is capable of finding out what happened to your relative because it is a really good system and you can put your faith in it? Think again.”
ICCL, with Professor Phil Scraton and Gillian McNaull, conducted resesarch that showed Ireland’s system of investigating tragic deaths is inadequate and can compound and even aggravate the suffering of loved ones.
Root-and-branch reform was demanded by an independent Working Group in 2000. Twenty-one years later, those reforms have still not been implemented. This failure on the part of successive governments means grieving families are side-lined, marginalised, and left out in the cold as they wait to find answers.