CALLS have been made for a public inquiry to be held into the 1987 Enniskillen bombing following fresh revelations.
The call was made by Belfast-based law firm KRW Law, who represent four families whose loved ones were either killed or injured in the PIRA attack.
The bombing claimed the lives of twelve people on November 8, 1987, as families gathered for a Remembrance Sunday event in the Co Fermanagh town.
Thirty-eight years on from the attack, the leading law firm has now written to the Irish Government urging them to support calls for a public inquiry similar to the Omagh bomb inquiry currently underway.
The call was made after a new book – entitled The Sorrow and the Loss – by Martin Dillon claimed both the Irish and British Governments concealed files about the 1987 bombing.
Dillon – who has written numerous books on The Troubles – also sensationally claimed that British intelligence agency M15 “tampered with the bomb’s timing mechanism determining that the explosion would devastate the IRA’s public image”.
There are also claims that MI5 were aware of the attack and “allowed it to happen”
A spokesperson for KRW law said: “The families are deeply concerned about reports on revelations by journalist Martin Dillion contained in his new book, The Sorrow and the Loss.
“The families we represent know that it was the PIRA who planted the bomb in Enniskillen on 8 November 1987.
“However the claims made by Martin Dillion, despite his caveat that such claims must be treated with considerable caution, raise issues of grave concern.
“These issues are that the British and Irish Government scrubbed files relating to the Enniskillen bombing and also had been sitting on such papers.
“These allegations are against the British and Irish Governments and their respective Intelligence Agencies.
“We are now writing to the Irish Government and British Government urging a public inquiry analogous to the Omagh Bomb Inquiry.”
