Fionnán Sheehan

They hadn't gone away, as we professedly heard about the IRA.

They were still an active threat to the state and to the public.

And at the same time, if we recall as well, only a couple of weeks later, Veronica Guerin is murdered.

She is gunned down by another criminal gang and

just outside Dublin.

Politicians have dragged their heels on this, possibly because up to this there was no vote.

So there was really a threat to law and order in the state at the time.

A very real and fundamental threat.

And you can add into the public outrage in the summer of 1996 a view among very many people

that governments in Dublin, in Belfast, in London, in Washington, and the authorities in Brussels and the Huller were bending over backwards to try and help Sinn Féin, the IRA, off the high rock upon which they had climbed, and doing everything possible.

You had the ceasefire in 1994, you had it breaking down weeks before this horrific incident in February 1996, so

They're just saying, well, this is worse than any form of ingratitude.

There's a lot more to Greyhound Racing.

There is obviously a wide ranging guard investigation and manhunt to catch these killers.

And it does prove successful.

So there are four individuals who are apprehended there.

Who were they and what happened with them in terms of being prosecuted?

Yeah, eventually four.

are prosecuted.

And eventually, after quite a torturous process, they are