Closure

I see from today's DT that we continue to fail to close down the disaster in Derry in Northern Ireland, a disaster which took place getting on for fifty years ago now. We also fail to close down the more recent disaster at the Hillsborough Stadium at Sheffield, a disaster which, as it happens, claimed a lot more lives.

What is it about us that makes us drag these things out, go looking for people to crucify so long after the event?

Odd, in the case of Derry, that it should be happening on the watch of the party of the armed forces and of law and order - a party which might think would have been apt to block any further attempts at crucifixion. Indeed, I thought that they had. Let's hope that it is not as grubby as some complicated ramification of trying to make deals with the likes of the DUP. Or as a bunch of lawyers smelling fat briefs.

Perhaps, if governments cannot get a grip on these things, we should have, as do at least some countries, a statute of limitations. A statute which would block any further legal action about disasters or anything else after some appropriate passage of time, say twenty years in this case.