Dealing with Troubles legacy 'may cost £2.7bn'
Andrew Madden, Belfast Telegraph, February 2nd, 2025
New research has estimated that the cost of dealing with the legacy of the Troubles could be as much as £2.7bn.
Policy Exchange — a right-wing think tank — has examined past and potential future costs relating to legacy, such as public inquiries, compensation and expenditure incurred by the likes of the PSNI's legacy Investigation Branch and the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR).
It comes as the Government is working on delivering its commitment to repealing much of the controversial Legacy Act, which aimed to draw a line under the Troubles by putting an end to all inquests, civil cases and most prosecutions related to the conflict.
One part of the controversial legislation that is being retained is the ICRIR, which is tasked with investigating Troubles-related killings following requests from bereaved families.
Policy Exchange's report comes after it criticised the Government for repealing sections of the Legacy Act, including removing the block on former Troubles internees, including Gerry Adams, seeking compensation over their detention.
In a foreword to the report, former Conservative Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said there has been “little consideration” about what the cost of legacy could end up amounting to, especially considering that government departments in London and Belfast are facing increasing financial pressures. “If the additional sums being committed by this Government to legacy matters were genuinely helping to bring about peace and reconciliation, the country would pay them cheerfully,” he said.
“But there is scant evidence that this is the case; indeed, scant evidence that such factors are even being considered.
“Rather, the approach to legacy appears at times to be being dictated by a maximalist approach to legalism, without regard to the underlying benefits or costs.”
Collusion and Stakeknife
In terms of past legacy costs, the report examines various expenditure, including formal inquiries, such as those into Bloody Sunday and the Stevens Inquiries into collusion, as well as the inquiries into the murders of LVF leader Billy Wright, solicitor Rosemary Nelson and Catholic father-of-three Robert Hamill.
The report adjusts all past costs for 2024 prices and, when adjusted, these probes total £455.6m.
When it comes to ongoing and future legacy expenditure, the report provides a range of estimated costs, with both a lower and an upper range.
Operation Kenova, which is looking into the activities of the agent known as Stakeknife, among other incidents, has so far cost £50.3m, while in 2019 the Department of Justice released £55m to speed up legacy inquests.
Past and ongoing inquests have so far cost £48.86m, as of December 2024.
For the past three years, the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme — known as the Victims' Payments Scheme — has been running at a cost of around £14m annually. There are also the past and ongoing costs of the PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch, around £14m a year, and the Police Ombudsman — an estimated £2.2m annually.
Some £230m has been allocated for the establishment of the ICRIR, and £20m for “memorialisation and official history measures that seek to promote wider societal healing/reconciliation”, under the Legacy Act.
There is the ongoing Omagh Bomb Inquiry, for which a conservative estimate has been put at £70m, while an inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane has been announced. The report puts a conservative estimate for this at £55m.
Future Troubles inquests could cost around £30m
Future Troubles inquests could cost around £30m. This covers around 30 inquests currently in the pipeline and does not account for further inquests not yet initiated.
Another expenditure concerns civil suits against government departments. This includes potentially up to 400 internment-related civil claims against the Northern Ireland Office brought on a similar basis to that of a recent case taken by Gerry Adams.
A clause had been inserted into the Legacy Act blocking compensation payments to Adams and others who had been unlawfully interned during the 1970s. This followed a 2020 Supreme Court ruling which in effect quashed the former Sinn Fein leader's convictions for two attempts to escape from the Maze prison in 1973 and 1974 after he was detained without trial.
The Labour Government has tabled a remedial order that would repeal parts of the Legacy Act, including sections covering the internment compensation cases. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is looking at “every conceivable way” to stop former Troubles internees from seeking compensation.
While settlements and awards in this area can vary greatly in amount, the report noted that between 2019 and 2024 the Ministry of Defence paid out £12.5m in legacy claims to 82 claimants, with an average payment of around £140,000 each.
If this average were to be applied to the number of legacy cases in the system, the estimated total would be £196m.
All told, the report puts the potential final legacy cost at between £2.2bn and £2.7bn — comprised of £1.4bn of costs already incurred and an estimated £1.3bn incurred in the future.
Equivalent to NI's capital health expenditure for five years
This would be equivalent to more than five years of NI's capital health expenditure, or more than the cost of two new hospitals or 70 new secondary schools.
In his foreward, Jeremy Hunt writes the costs of legacy in Northern Ireland are “apparently exempt from the usual scrutiny” that is applied to other government spending.
“It is rightly a priority for any government to resolve the many complex issues in Northern Ireland, not least to preserve peace going forward,” he added.
“But there appears to have been little consideration of what this might amount to.”
SAS actions against Provos reveal complex reality of operating between war and law
Malachi O'Doherty, Belfast Telegraph, February 11th, 2025
The IRA gang that attacked Coalisland police station in February 1992 believed that they were fully entitled to try to kill those inside.
They were part of the east Tyrone brigade of the Provisional IRA that had killed and tried to kill not just members of the security forces, but also Protestant workmen.
That 'brigade' had, weeks before, bombed a workers' bus at Teebane near Cookstown and killed eight men.
They believed they were fighting a legitimate war against the British state and its functionaries.
The SAS men who set a trap for them at Clonoe and killed four of them were supposed to be acting by a different principle.
Many times over the years, the British Government had insisted that it was upholding the law in Northern Ireland.
And unionist leaders routinely criticised them for this, demanding that they “take the gloves off”.
Had Britain been at war with the IRA, as the Israeli state has often been at war with Palestinian groups, we might have expected bloodier moves against the IRA.
But Britain was hung up on the need to stay within the law or at least to plausibly maintain the pretence.
From a good Catholic family
Kevin Barry O'Donnell, one of those killed in Clonoe, had months before been acquitted at the Old Bailey on a charge of possessing two Kalashnikov rifles. He had pleaded that he was from a good Catholic family that abhorred violence and a jury had believed him.
Later, O'Donnell and Sean O'Farrell, who also died at Clonoe, were charged with possession of weapons and then the charges were dropped.
The law wasn't proving effective against them, though other interpretations of these anomalies are available; either that they were informers or that the devious Brits were trying to make them appear so and turn their comrades against them.
Since Justice Humphreys' ruling last week that the SAS had not had the intention of arresting the gang, his judgment has been dismissed by many as farcical and prejudiced.
There would be more integrity in their position were they to say frankly that the Army should have been free to fight its war against the IRA on the same basis that the IRA fought its war against the state.
But this would be an appalling idea.
Yet, the SAS was fighting a war in Tyrone and the surrounding area and had killed, including at Clonoe, about 20 serious IRA gunmen in a five-year period.
In 1987, they killed eight who had been preparing to attack Loughgall police station.
In August 1988, undercover soldiers killed brothers Gerard and Martin Harte and Brian Mullan, riddling their car with bullets as they drove to attack a UDR man.
‘There is another way out of this war’
Or as their memorial puts it, “moved into action against a member of the enemy forces”.
Gerry Adams said then: “There is another way out of this war and it is the way of negotiation and dialogue towards peace.”
That would have entailed the British acknowledging that it was a war, which, in effect, they later did.
In October 1990, the SAS shot Desmond Grew and Martin McCaughey in a farmyard in Loughgall.
Grew had had a long IRA career. He was acquitted of IRA membership in an Irish court in 1974. After his death, he was named in a Dusseldorf court as one of a gang which killed Major Michael Dillon in June 1990.
At Grew's funeral, the priest asked for the tricolour, beret and gloves to be removed from the coffin.
Grew's brother Aidan, released from prison on compassionate leave to attend the funeral, had a wee word with the priest and the tricolour stayed on, though the beret and gloves were removed.
Gerry Adams called Grew “a freedom fighter, a comrade and an upstanding and decent Irish patriot” who had been “murdered by terrorists”.
He said: “Rest assured that we who are left to finish the unfinished business will do so.”
Eliminating people not amenable to a peace process
In June 1991, Peter Ryan, Lawrence McNally and Tony Doris were ambushed in their car driving to an attack on a UDR man in Coagh. They were incinerated beyond recognition in their vehicle. One of their guns had been used to murder three Protestants in Coagh in March 1989.
So the ambush at Clonoe was part of a pattern of SAS attacks on the east Tyrone IRA, one of the most dangerous and most nakedly sectarian of the brigades.
That the SAS was able to anticipate their moves and intercept them suggests that they were also well infiltrated by informers locally, or that someone at a higher command level who was briefed on operations was passing information to the security forces.
That is the suspicion of some who believe that particular efforts were made to eliminate people who would not have been amenable to the peace process.
When Gerry Adams said at Desmond Grew's funeral that he would finish the unfinished business, he was looking ahead to a peace process rather than urging a continuation of the war.
That's something that most of those listening to him would not have understood.
OMEATH INQUEST
Man tells Omagh inquiry how he found wife face down in rubble
Jonathan McCambridge, Irish News, February 11th, 2025
A MAN has told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry how he found his wife lying face down in rubble in the aftermath of the atrocity.
Kevin Skelton told the hearing that he could never forget the smell of burning flesh and the cries of victims after a Real IRA bomb devastated the centre of the Co Tyrone town in 1998.
Mother-of-four Philomena Skelton was 39 when she died in the attack while on a shopping trip with her husband and three daughters.
Mr Skelton told the inquiry that he and his wife were like “chalk and cheese”.
He refereed GAA games while his wife liked to stay at home knitting and reading.
Mr Skelton said he could not even boil an egg and his wife, who he described as a “homebird”, did everything for him.
He said his wife had welcomed a Romanian orphan into their home in 1997, an act he described as “pure kindness”.
Following his wife’s death, Mr Skelton maintained the family’s link to the charity and he eventually married the mother of a Romanian girl who had stayed at his home.
He told the inquiry that he had brought his wife Philomena and their three daughters into Omagh to shop for items for school on the Saturday the bomb exploded. Kevin Skelton’s wife Philomena was one of the 29 people and unborn twins killed in the Omagh bomb.
‘I wonder is the bomb in that car?’
Mr Skelton said they were inside a shop when they were alerted to a bomb scare by a traffic warden.
“One of my daughters said as we crossed into SD Kells, ‘I wonder is the bomb in that car?’,” he said.
“But nobody thought, I never thought there was a bomb.
“We walked past the car into SD Kells.”
Asked if he thought often about the fact that his family had walked past the car moments before it exploded, Mr Skelton said “yes”.
He told the inquiry he had become “fed-up” with shopping for shoes so left his wife and daughter Shauna in SD Kells while he went into a separate store.
He said as he was about to leave this shop, the bomb exploded.
“The front of the shop was sucked out and I walked out after it,” Mr Skelton said.
“I walked out and went in through where the window was in SD Kells and I found her [Philomena] lying face down in the rubble.”
Mr Skelton said he felt for his wife’s pulse but could not find it.
He told the inquiry he began to dig as he believed his daughter Shauna was buried in the rubble.
‘The smell of burning flesh, I can’t get that out of my head’
“My whole focus turned to looking for my daughter because I thought my daughter was buried underneath her mammy,” he said.
“When you start digging, some of the things I witnessed, that no human being should have to live with.
“I was there in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was just horrendous.
“There are things that stays with me, the smell of burning flesh, I can’t get that out of my head, the cries of people.
“I thought Shauna was gone too. I didn’t know about my other two daughters.
“My whole family, including myself, could have been wiped out.”
He said the scenes of devastation in the middle of the town were “unbelievable”.
“ There are things that stays with me, the smell of burning flesh, I can’t get that out of my head, the cries of people
“How so many people survived, it is a mystery to me,” Mr Skelton said.
He told the inquiry that he was ushered out of SD Kells but kept going back to search for his daughter, stating “nobody could calm me down”.
Mr Skelton said that a stranger then shouted over to him “you have a wee ginger-haired girl?”
He said: “I said I had. He said she was in the hospital.
“That was the first time I knew Shauna was alive.”
Ninety minutes later Mr Skelton found out that his other two daughters were alive, the inquiry heard.
He told the inquiry he identified his wife at an army camp the next day.
Husband challenges Inquiry to deliver truth
Jonathan McCambridge, Irish News, February 11th, 2025
KEVIN Skelton has challenged the inquiry to provide the truth about the atrocity to victims.
Mr Skelton said he did not trust the Irish government to cooperate with the probe, adding that without such cooperation it was “dead in the water”.
The inquiry is continuing with four weeks of public commemorative hearings, recalling the lives of and hearing tributes to all those killed and impacted by the Real IRA bombing which killed 29 people, including a mother pregnant with twins.
The probe, led by Scottish judge Lord Turnbull, is examining whether the attack could reasonably have been prevented by UK authorities.
Giving evidence yesterday, Kevin Skelton said it was beyond him trying to understand what cause the dissident bombers were trying to achieve by “blowing up women and children”.
Despite politicians promises ‘they didn’t turn too many stones’
Counsel to the inquiry Paul Greaney KC read part of Mr Skelton’s witness statement to him.
It said: “When I think of the amount of crap we went through fighting for compensation.
“Then you had the likes of Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Bertie Ahern, all coming to Omagh with promises of no stone will be left unturned to bring those responsible to justice.
“But to be honest, they didn’t turn too many stones and no-one was ever convicted.”
Mr Skelton told the inquiry he had always maintained that no-one would ever be convicted for the bombing.
He said: “Some families took a civil action, that is entirely up to them, but what did it achieve?
“Them boys don’t care.
“They were prepared to put a bomb in the middle of a busy street, they don’t care about being named.
‘All I want is truth’
“Every time that Omagh comes up there is always something which hits it on the head.
“This inquiry that is coming now, is it going to produce something for the families now?
“I wasn’t in favour of the inquiry, it is not that I don’t want justice.
“Now with this inquiry it will be Omagh for the next God knows how long.
“All I want is truth. Are we going to get the truth that on that particular day, in a garrison town, why was the army not brought in to clear the street?
“On that particular day, soldiers out in the camp, not one of them was used until the bomb went off.
“I would like somebody to answer that question.”
Mr Greaney said: “Many people will feel the inquiry cannot deliver justice, because justice means people being convicted.
“But what we can promise is we know there are many unanswered questions and we will do what we can to answer them.”
Bomb was made in south, built in south and brought it to Omagh from South
Mr Skelton said he did not trust the Irish or British governments to deliver answers.
He added: “I met more secretaries of state nearly than I had hot dinners, and not one of them ever did anything for us.
“But the Irish government, I don’t see them playing ball with this inquiry.
“And if they don’t then it is dead in the water.
“At the end of the day, the bomb was made in the south, the people who built the bomb were from the south, the car was stolen in the south, the car was driven from the south.
“There are some of them still walking the streets.”
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has previously pledged that the Irish government will give full cooperation to the inquiry.
Earlier, the probe heard a statement from the family of 56-year-old victim Veda Short.
In the statement, the four children of Mrs Short said their father never recovered from the death of his wife.
They said: “Our dad was a broken man from that day on. His whole world had just collapsed and he had nothing left to live for.
“We lost both our parents that awful day. Our dad became depressed and with illhealth he passed away in June 2004, aged just 64.
Family’s desperate search for schoolgirl
Jonathan McCambridge, Irish News, February 11th, 2025
THE family of a 15-year-old victim desperately searched for the missing schoolgirl in the aftermath of the massacre, the inquiry heard.
Lorraine Wilson had been working in an Oxfam shop on the day she died in 1998 and had wanted to buy her school uniform out of her wages.
Lorraine’s family, including younger brother Colin and her older sister Denise Kerrigan, provided a statement which was read to the inquiry by a lawyer yesterday.
The statement said: “Lorraine was a joy. She was an easy going person who loved life and she always put other people first.”
The family said the Omagh High School pupil loved cooking and travel and had taken part in cross-community peace trips.
A personal reflection read on behalf of her brother Colin said she was “generally loved”.
In her reflection, Ms Kerrigan recalled the day of the bomb and how her sister had been working in the Oxfam shop.
She wanted to buy her school uniform and shoes out of her own wages
“That Saturday she had wanted to buy her school uniform and school shoes out of her own wages in preparation for going back to school,” she said.
The family had been due to meet Lorraine in Omagh town centre but were unable to get there due to the bomb alert.
Ms Kerrigan’s statement said she had just returned home to tell her husband about the alert when they heard the explosion.
“We saw a large dark plume fill the air in the vicinity of the town centre,” she said.
The family attempted to drive to the town centre but were turned back by police, so had to continue on foot.
Ms Kerrigan’s statement said: “As we stood there some of the windows of the buildings were all collapsing in. We started asking people if they had seen Lorraine but you could see how traumatised people were. Some were covered in debris and some people just could not speak.”
Lorraine Wilson was 15 when she was killed in the bombing
The family went to Omagh hospital in an attempt to find out information about Lorraine.
Father consumed by fight for justice
Ms Kerrigan said: “The scene at the hospital was shocking.
“Nurses and doctors running around, people on stretchers, blood on the floor, people standing around in confused states; it was a harrowing scene to take in.”
The inquiry heard the family then went to the town’s leisure centre and stayed there throughout Saturday and into Sunday as they waited for news.
Ms Kerrigan said: “Dad was saying surely there has to be a light at the end of the tunnel.
“He was holding on to the hope he would see his daughter again.”
The inquiry was told the family were brought to a temporary morgue at an army camp on Sunday to identify Lorraine’s body.
Ms Kerrigan said: “We held Lorraine’s hand, hugged her, touched her hair, told her how much we loved her.
“We all broke down trying to grasp the reality of the situation we were in.”
Ms Kerrigan said her father Godfrey, who died in 2018, became consumed for the rest of his life with fighting for justice for his daughter.
Loss of my twin sister left huge void in family
Liam Tunney, Belfast Telegraph, February 11th,
The death of a student murdered in the Omagh bomb left a “huge void” in her family, her twin brother has told the inquiry into the atrocity.
Julia Hughes (21) was working in the Express Camera shop in the town on the day of the Real IRA blast on August 15, 1998.
She had been working there during the summer while home from university in Dundee.
A statement compiled by Julia's twin brother, Justin, was read by John Rafferty KC, counsel to the inquiry. He said Julia was “kind, funny and adventurous”.
“Julia was small, but fire burned in her heart,” he continued.
“She was feisty when she needed to be. She proved this at school by playing goalie for the girls' hockey team.
Fearless competitor
“A fearless competitor, she also loved the camaraderie with her teammates. Her friends stayed with her throughout her life and I'm still in contact with many of them to this day.
“They've never forgotten their friendships with Julia and this is testament to the sort of friend that she was — honest, loyal and trustworthy.”
Justin told the inquiry that when Julia left for Dundee in 1995, she had struggled to settle in, but that the pair had kept in touch through letters and phone calls.
“With the help of her lecturers and her year head, Julia really began to enjoy student life in Dundee,” he said.
“Julia was just a year away from gaining her degree when she was killed. After working so hard, she was denied the chance to graduate with her friends and classmates.”
I carry her with me
Following her death in the bomb, Dundee University awarded Julia with her bachelor's degree in accounting. The university also dedicated an award in her memory.
“The prize is awarded to a student who has overcome difficulties and adversity,” he said.
“On the 25th anniversary of her death, I was fortunate enough to be able to present this prize, on behalf of our family, to the winner in 2023.
“This was the first time the prize was presented in person by a member of our family, such was the grief we felt at her loss.
“None of us had the strength to go to the place where Julia had lived [for] the last three years of her life.”
Justin said the loss of his sister had been “insurmountable” for the family.
“It shattered our very being. Life was never the same again,” he said.
“She was my twin and now I am her voice. I shared an unbreakable bond with her.
“Growing up, we were inseparable, sharing secrets, dreams and countless memories that shaped who we are.
“Her tragic and senseless loss left a huge void in all of our hearts — a void that can never be filled.
“I carry her with me, honouring her memory every day by talking about her. And to this very day, I still talk to her.
“The pain remains and we just cope the best we can.”
Omagh bomb inquiry: Family say their worlds were ‘shattered’ by murder of mother
The inquiry heard that Veda Short (56) was a ‘loving wife, mother and grandmother’
PA, Irish Times, Monday, February 10th, 2025
The four children of a woman killed in the Omagh bombing have said that their worlds were “shattered” by her death in the 1998 Real IRA massacre.
The Omagh Bombing Inquiry heard that 56-year-old Veda Short was a “loving wife, mother and grandmother” who was very family-orientated and active within her church.
She was one of three staff members of Watterson’s drapers killed when they were evacuated into Market Street in Omagh on the day the bomb exploded.
A statement from her four children – Alison Crozier, Frances Henry, Ian Short and Elaine Magowan – was read to the inquiry by solicitor Conor Cullen.
In it, Mrs Short was described as “very family orientated”.
The statement said: “Mum never had a bad word to say about anyone.
“Mum was just getting over the death of her own mother from the previous October.
“She and Dad had just returned home from a holiday in Alicante.
“They had so much to look forward to.
“She had eight grandchildren whom she loved and adored.”
It added: “The day before the bomb, Elaine had given birth to her fourth child in Dundonald Hospital.
“Mum was taken up to Belfast that night to see her new grandson. She had taken photographs of Lee and got to hold him.
“She was the centre of our family and had a very loving and caring nature.
“Our world was shattered on Saturday, 15th August 1998.”
The four siblings said their “whole lives changed” the day their mother was murdered.
Their statement said: “A loving mother was taken away from us in such a brutal manner.
“We never got the chance to say goodbye or see her grow old, or take care of her as she had done for us.
“Our dad was a broken man from that day on. His whole world had just collapsed and he had nothing left to live for.
“We lost both our parents that awful day. Our dad became depressed and with ill-health he passed away in June 2004, aged just 64.
“Another casualty of the Omagh bomb.”
The statement said Mrs Short had missed out on the birth of three grandchildren, missed the weddings of eight grandchildren and birth of eight great-grandchildren – and also missed her son Ian’s wedding.
It continued: “There is not a day goes by that we do not think of Mum.”
Inquiry chair Lord Turnbull said: “It is obvious that Mrs Short’s death caused a terrible loss to her family.
“Particularly so perhaps to her husband.
“Their children rightly say that after his own untimely death, their father was another casualty of the Omagh bombing.”
The commemorative hearings for the Omagh bomb victims continue at the Strule Arts Centre.
Family say their worlds were ‘shattered’ by murder of mother
The inquiry heard that Veda Short (56) was a ‘loving wife, mother and grandmother’
PA, Irish Times, Monday, February 10th, 2025
The four children of a woman killed in the Omagh bombing have said that their worlds were “shattered” by her death in the 1998 Real IRA massacre.
The Omagh Bombing Inquiry heard that 56-year-old Veda Short was a “loving wife, mother and grandmother” who was very family-orientated and active within her church.
She was one of three staff members of Watterson’s drapers killed when they were evacuated into Market Street in Omagh on the day the bomb exploded.
A statement from her four children – Alison Crozier, Frances Henry, Ian Short and Elaine Magowan – was read to the inquiry by solicitor Conor Cullen.
In it, Mrs Short was described as “very family orientated”.
The statement said: “Mum never had a bad word to say about anyone.
“Mum was just getting over the death of her own mother from the previous October.
Day before the bomb, Elaine had given birth to Veda’s fourth grandchild
“She and Dad had just returned home from a holiday in Alicante.
“They had so much to look forward to.
“She had eight grandchildren whom she loved and adored.”
It added: “The day before the bomb, Elaine had given birth to her fourth child in Dundonald Hospital.
“Mum was taken up to Belfast that night to see her new grandson. She had taken photographs of Lee and got to hold him.
“She was the centre of our family and had a very loving and caring nature.
“Our world was shattered on Saturday, 15th August 1998.”
The four siblings said their “whole lives changed” the day their mother was murdered.
Their statement said: “A loving mother was taken away from us in such a brutal manner.
“We never got the chance to say goodbye or see her grow old, or take care of her as she had done for us.
Dad’s death in 2004 - ‘Another casualty’ of bomb
“Our dad was a broken man from that day on. His whole world had just collapsed and he had nothing left to live for.
“We lost both our parents that awful day. Our dad became depressed and with ill-health he passed away in June 2004, aged just 64.
“Another casualty of the Omagh bomb.”
The statement said Mrs Short had missed out on the birth of three grandchildren, missed the weddings of eight grandchildren and birth of eight great-grandchildren – and also missed her son Ian’s wedding.
It continued: “There is not a day goes by that we do not think of Mum.”
Inquiry chair Lord Turnbull said: “It is obvious that Mrs Short’s death caused a terrible loss to her family.
“Particularly so perhaps to her husband.
“Their children rightly say that after his own untimely death, their father was another casualty of the Omagh bombing.”
The commemorative hearings for the Omagh bomb victims continue at the Strule Arts Centre.
