Victims Commissioners

Is there really no hierarchy of victims when it comes to the past?

Mick Fealty on June 7, 2012, 5:15 pm

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There has been a lot of words written/spoken etc on the issue of Eibhlin Glenholmes (once ‘Britain’s most wanted woman’) being appointed to a panel hand picked by all three of the three Victims Commissioners. Stephen Nolan decided to lance the boil last night, even though as two of panelists pointed out we did not know who else was to sit on the the victims panel. There’s a couple of things to say about this. One, why appoint a set of Victims …

“Four Victims’ Commissioners have eight ears, but access to no mouth”

Mick Fealty on June 4, 2011, 1:04 pm

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Interesting take from Ian Paisley in yesterday’s News Letter: I know that there have been difficult decisions and hard choices taken here. I had to take many of them myself. But those choices will only bear fruit if those who are the deepest affected by them have our ear. In this present very public debate between a woman whose sister was murdered and those who have chosen to appoint someone responsible for what occurred on that Sunday morning, everyone is …