Killing of Rosemary Nelson

Many people were killed and murdered during those years, including three young Catholic brothers in Ballymoney.

And a year after the Good Friday Agreement was signed and the Garvaghy Road part of the march was banned, the solicitor representing the residents, Rosemary Nelson, was murdered by a loyalist paramilitary bomb which exploded under her car.

This morning, her son, Chris Nelson, spoke to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster.

The only message I would give is th-think about the children.

Good morning, Sarah.

The, the job at moments of peril and when communities are in, um, severe distress as the community of Garvaghy Road have been for the past number of days, is to show leadership and to provide leadership, and that's what Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Féin representatives, but not only Sinn Féin representatives, did over the weekend.

We, we also had representatives from the SDLP, from People Before Profit, from into, from the Social Democrats, who quite rightly, um, stood up for a community's right, uh, given under the Good Friday Agreement, to live free from sectarian harassment.

Um, the decision of the Parades Commission is just illogical, and any rational person would have known that it would have opened up old wounds-

And their argument is you are not doing the same, and that you should.

Well, first of all, first of all, they didn't abide by that r- um, by that ruling.

When the Parades Commission initially, um, indicated that the march wouldn't be permitted down the Garvaghy Road, they instigated widespread rioting, and protests, and a campaign of intimidation across the six counties.

And in fact, it took the murder of three young boys who were in bed in their home, who were burnt to death, to actually result in the protests being called off at that time.

It's the people from outside the area.

You know, Rosemary Nelson lived in Lurgan.

But Rosemary was our solicitor.

She acted on behalf of this community.

So I remember the conways that came from Belfast with food, you know, 30 or 40 vehicles.

Comin' down from Belfast, bein' stopped out the Dungannon Road, that's the camp on the motorway.

Goin' out that mornin' along with Rosemary Nelson, God rest her, he went out, he'd heard the convoy was stopped, he went out.

Convoy was there, all the vehicles were bein' stopped, searched, and the Brits, or the REC, Turned around and said that he'd discovered a number of weapons and Rosemary insisted on saying what those weapons were.

That included local people from our own community, including Robert Hommel, He was beaten to death by a loyalist gang in Port of Downtown Centre.

And it also includes our late legal representative, Rosemary Nelson.

He was murdered by persons acting in support of the Orange Order at Throne Creek.

So, you know, it brings back a lot of memories to people in this area.

We have talked to various political parties in this.

We have made our fears and feelings known to the government in Dublin.

And we've been in regular touch and regular contact with representatives from Dublin throughout the last week.

So everybody knows what the views of this community are.

The Irish Independent reports that Housing Minister James Brown is in a budget battle to increase the Help to Buy tax refund for first-time buyers to €50,000.

The Irish News reports that the explosives used in the bomb that killed solicitor Rosemary Nelson in Lurgan in 1999 were supplied by what it calls Johnny Adair's Notorious C Company UDA unit.

That claim is made in a new book about the ex-loyalist, Enemies Within, by Aaron Edwards.

The Irish Farmers Journal leads with a survey of a thousand farmers which suggests that the two government parties have lost their majority support among Ireland's farming population for the first time.

I would also like to thank all those organisations and individuals who supported our campaign for justice over many years.

While too numerous to name all of them, we particularly wish to acknowledge the support of Jane Winter of British Irish Rights Watch and the Committee on the Administration of Justice, and our legal team, including the late Rosemary Nelson.

Although we have some reservations about aspects of this report, we as a family feel totally vindicated by the clear and unequivocal findings of the panel.

It documents multiple and shocking wrongdoing, some of it deliberate by state agencies.