Alison Morris

I suppose there were thousands of victims of the troubles, and that is thousands and thousands of relatives.

And some people may feel that they know everything would happen, but thousands of people will have answers and thousands of people would say, well, why can't we have an inquiry?

Now, common sense says we would be here forever if everyone got an inquiry, but it's perfectly understandable.

This will begin with a hearing on the 10th of June.

The chair is Sir Gary Hickenbottom and the first hearing is described as a procedural hearing which will provide an opportunity to introduce the public to the inquiry.

It took me more than one take, Alison.

Alison Morris, thank you very much.

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Seachtain.

The end of the story.

You're sitting in court and you're thinking, well, this is what I'm going to report today.

And then all of a sudden, we're told that at the height of 2020, Geoffrey Donaldson had a listening device placed in his car, but he didn't know that it was there.

Yeah, so Geoffrey Donaldson started out as a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, but he was opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, at which point he defected then to the DUP.

He was a very prominent member of the DUP.

He was the MP for Lagan Valley for over two decades.