Overview

• Opening statements resumed this week under Lord Turnbull, with core participants including bereaved relatives, the PSNI and Northern Ireland’s Secretary of State delivering their initial submissions.
• Inquiry counsel Paul Greaney KC urged material providers to accelerate disclosure, warning that delays limit the depth of evidence families can present and proposing a progress hearing later this year.
• PSNI counsel Philip Henry KC said outdated IT systems and paper records are slowing reviews, despite reallocating sensitive researchers to the inquiry and applying for restriction orders only when required.
• Families’ representative Alan Kane KC accused the Irish Government of broken promises and inadequate cooperation, calling its memorandum of understanding voluntary and too narrow in scope.
• Victims are renewing calls for Dublin to establish a parallel inquiry, arguing that only a separate probe can fully scrutinize preventability issues on both sides of the border.