US EditionBritish and Irish governments to unveil new Troubles legacy proposals
The new Legacy Commission will investigate Troubles-related deaths with judicial oversight, aiming to replace controversial amnesty laws and support over 3,500 victims' families, officials said.
- On Friday, 19 September 2025, the governments of Ireland and the UK announced a collaborative plan in Belfast to address the ongoing issues stemming from the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
- The framework follows a year of negotiations and builds upon the disputed Legacy legislation introduced by the prior Conservative administration in 2023, which encountered legal disputes and opposition.
- The plan involves changing the name of the current investigative body handling legacy issues to the Legacy Commission and establishing a new separate entity, the Independent Commission for Information Recovery, which will be responsible for producing reports for families.
- Both governments commit to legislate for these changes, establish a new inquisitorial process overseen by judges, allocate £25 million to support families, and create a dedicated legacy unit within An Garda Síochána.
- The agreement aims to replace the Legacy Act with human-rights-compliant measures, but concerns remain over Dublin's role and the ongoing Irish legal case against the UK.
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Stephen Goss: The legacy of the 'Troubles' is far from resolved and previous attempts have been deeply flawed
Dr Stephen Goss is an historian, policy and research manager, and a Conservative councillor in Reading. Bear in mind these dead: I can find no plainer words. I dare not risk using that loaded word, Remember, for your memory is a cruel web threaded from thorn to thorn across a hedge of dead bramble, heavy with pathetic atomies. So begins John Hewitt’s poem Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto. The Troubles ended more than a quarter of a century ago, …
'It is an obscenity' - Jim Allister MP attacks Dublin's joint role in designing the new legacy structures for Northern Ireland given that Ireland facilitated IRA murderers
Dublin’s “co-design” role in the government’s latest legacy proposals is an “obscenity” – and many victims of Provisional IRA violence would be alive today but for the facilitation of their murderers by the Republic, Jim Allister has said.
UK and Ireland create new framework to support families affected by Troubles
The UK and Irish governments announced on Friday the creation of a new joint framework that hopes to facilitate investigations into all unresolved Troubles-related incidents in Ireland. The new framework replaces the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and establishes a reformed Legacy Commission that will oversee investigations into the unresolved Troubles-related incidents in Ireland. The deal is aimed at resolving t…
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