COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OMAGH INQUEST INSENSITIVITY
Collective responsibility for Omagh inquest insensitivity
I AM quite sure I speak for the vast majority of the population of this country by expressing my disgust and dismay at what can only be described as the blatantly insensitive use of public funds by the current Government.
I refer to two examples in the public spotlight at present-the Millennium Dome and the ongoing inquest into the Omagh atrocity.
It clearly baffles me how any administration could spend �lbn on what can only be described as a failed "white elephant", yet no money is spent to provide an adequate venue in which to hold the important Omagh investigation.
The fact that friends and relatives of those who were killed in Omagh are being asked to return to a building used after the event as a temporary morgue, is in my view reprehensible. Surely some money could have been found to either build a more appropriate venue or re-locate.
A fraction of the �lbn now wasted would have gone a very long way to acknowledging the anguish people feel at returning to the Omagh Leisure Centre day after day.
It is also important to add that all of the political representatives of the province who, quite rightly, came in out of sympathy with the bereaved at the time of the Omagh bomb, now also share a collective political responsibility for this failing.
Following Mr Blair's expressed anger at the legitimate frustrations of those of us paying exorbitant fuel tax I ask: When will politicians decide to put the feelings of the people of this country over their own sense of self-preservation?
S.C., Lisburn, Co Antrim.
I AM quite sure I speak for the vast majority of the population of this country by expressing my disgust and dismay at what can only be described as the blatantly insensitive use of public funds by the current Government.
I refer to two examples in the public spotlight at present-the Millennium Dome and the ongoing inquest into the Omagh atrocity.
It clearly baffles me how any administration could spend �lbn on what can only be described as a failed "white elephant", yet no money is spent to provide an adequate venue in which to hold the important Omagh investigation.
The fact that friends and relatives of those who were killed in Omagh are being asked to return to a building used after the event as a temporary morgue, is in my view reprehensible. Surely some money could have been found to either build a more appropriate venue or re-locate.
A fraction of the �lbn now wasted would have gone a very long way to acknowledging the anguish people feel at returning to the Omagh Leisure Centre day after day.
It is also important to add that all of the political representatives of the province who, quite rightly, came in out of sympathy with the bereaved at the time of the Omagh bomb, now also share a collective political responsibility for this failing.
Following Mr Blair's expressed anger at the legitimate frustrations of those of us paying exorbitant fuel tax I ask: When will politicians decide to put the feelings of the people of this country over their own sense of self-preservation?
S.C., Lisburn, Co Antrim.
Further Information
Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0758
Published Date: 19-Sep-00
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