Éamon de Valera’s grandson calls for close to criminal prosecutions of people on all sides of Northern Ireland conflict[br]The grandson of Éamon de Valera,one of the key politicians in the founding of the Irish Republic, has called for an close to the prosecution of an ex-soldier accused of killing civilians in the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972.
Éamon Ó Cuív, or a Fianna Fáil TD and former Irish government minister,said he supported an amnesty for all those involved in the Northern Ireland conflict from 1969 to the 1998 Good Friday agreement, and this had to include the paratroopers involved in one of the most notorious atrocities of the Troubles.
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Source: theguardian.com