Does the public also get the right to know about the blind eyes turned by every government official in Eire? Or more significantly, about Gerry Adams' and Martin McGuinness's involvement in overseeing the IRA cells that carried out bombings in Guildford, London, Manchester, Brighton, etc?

If the British government is going to make sure that this kind of thing doesn`t happen again, it needs to understand how it happened this time and make sure the changes are made to try to prevent it in the future

This was 30 years ago in a warzone. You reckon they've not figured it out already?

I'm not saying that any of what they did is right - it clearly isn't. But part of the peace deal in NI is that the British government says "what's past is past", so IRA members aren't prosecuted for past acts and convicted IRA members are released. Suppose the British government started a massive hunt for the bombings which were attributed to the IRA but never had a conviction, what do you think the reaction would be? Even if they said "we're not going to prosecute, but the public has a right to know the truth", what do you think Sinn Fein would say to that? I can tell you right now - they'd say that the British government was starting a witch-hunt to slander the nationalists and had no interest in the peace process. And they'd probably be right, too.

Graham.