Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Warrington bombing. Two bombs, placed in bins, were exploded without warning by the Provisional IRA on Bridge Street, Warrington. Three year old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, 12 year old Tim Parry died five days later from his injuries and 54 others were injured. Nobody was ever prosecuted for these murders and this barbaric incident shocked our two islands. It perhaps brought a renewed focus on peace. I worked in London and then as a GP in Wales and when one said one was from Ireland, the atrocity of Warrington was often mentioned.

Colin and Wendy Parry, the parents of 12 year old Tim Parry, established the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace, which works nationally and internationally for peace and non-violent conflict resolution. In 2000, on the seventh anniversary of the bombing, a peace centre was opened and I am sure people like Colin and Wendy Parry never imagined the tragedy visited upon them. When violence and death arrived at their door, however, they chose to make a difference for others. I salute them and every other victim who had the courage to stand up and say bombings never bring people together.

Mar fhocal scoir, ba mhaith liom cúpla focal a rá faoi Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta. B'ócáid stairiúil é agus táim i bhfabhar díospóireacht a reachtáil sa Seanad maidir leis an bpróiseas síochána agus Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta. The Good Friday Agreement will be 20 years old in a few weeks and it is timely that we should have a debate on it in the Seanad. The agreement was overwhelmingly approved in two referendums in both parts of Ireland in May 1998, only the second time in a century that the people of Ireland voted on the same issue on the same day on their constitutional status, the first being the election of the first Dáil in 1918.

Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights rejected the Government's case that 14 internees, the so-called "hooded men", were tortured by the British army and the RUC in the early 1970s. If we are to be fair and if we are to be advocates for human rights, be it in Guantanamo Bay or anywhere, we must be consistent that human rights are fundamental to everybody and justice must prevail and that due course of action must prevail. What was alleged to have happened to those men was nothing short of a disgrace. I want to support the Government. I particularly support the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, in the stand he has taken. I would appeal to the Minister to meet the victims and their legal representatives within days because what happened was wrong and cannot be countenanced regardless of the political sensitivities. In 2014, the Government agreed to have this case re-examined by the European Court of Human Rights but the court yesterday rejected those claims. Speaking for myself, I abhor and hate violence on any side. I advocate justice for all, regardless of their background, tradition, creed or political affiliation. Our thoughts must be with the men who suffered these appalling violations against them as human beings. I simply call for the Minister to meet these men and their legal representatives soon and for the Government to give serious consideration to appealing this decision to the Grand Chamber of the court. This is about human rights. It is about taking a stand, regardless of how long ago it happened, against the methods of torture of people in Northern Ireland. Torture, no matter where and by whom, must stop. I am conscious, as I stated earlier, of Guantanamo Bay, but all over the world, we as parliamentarians must take a stand and defend human rights and justice. I acknowledge the work the Government, and Deputy Coveney, as Minister, has done and I ask that we in this House are kept informed as to progress.