NORTHERN IRELAND
The Irish News
Suzanne McGonagle and John Manley
27 July, 2017
POLITICANS and campaigners have welcomed an extraordinary intervention by former first minister Peter Robinson calling for action for institutional abuses victims.
The ex-DUP leader yesterday said the issue had been “swept under the carpet for too long” and the delay in implementing the recommendations of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) had been “unfair and unnecessarily deferred” by the collapse of the Stormont institutions.
Writing in the Irish News, he called on Secretary of State James Brokenshire to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. He also described how he and the late Martin McGuinness had been “deeply affected” by the victims’ experiences.
Patrick Corrigan for Amnesty International last night said Mr Robinson’s remarks were “timely and welcome”.
“I remember those initial meetings which Peter Robinson referenced in his article when he and Martin McGuinness met abuse victims,” he said.
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