New Northern Ireland legacy deal ‘leaves a lot of questions to answer’ – victims

Grainne Teggart (left), Deputy Director of Amnesty International in Northern Ireland with Martina Dillon, whose husband Seamus was shot dead by loyalists in Dungannon in 1997, speaking during an Amnesty International press conference with at the The MAC in Belfast, on the Government plan to appeal against a court judgment in regard to the Legacy Act. Picture date: Monday October 21, 2024. - (PA Archive)

A new deal to address the legacy of Northern Ireland’s past agreed by the UK and Irish governments will have a lot of questions to answer, victims have said.

The two governments were also warned by Amnesty International that the new framework must be “more than simply a rebrand”.