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The Narrow Ground Conference – Queen's University Belfast, Canada Room, 18 October 2025
The Truth Recovery Process CLG held a conference called 'The Narrow Ground Conference' at the Canada Room, Queen's University Belfast on 18 October 2025. The conference reviewed the legacy crisis in Northern Ireland and proposed a joint approach by the British and Irish governments and other stakeholders.
The morning session (10:30–13:00) heard from victims, survivors and former combatants. In the afternoon at 2pm, a panel of leading experts — Fionnuala Ní hAolain, Brice Dickson, Tom Hadden, Kieran McEvoy and Kevin Winters, chaired by Michael Lynn SC — assessed the British Supreme Court proceedings.
The conference put forward five options it believed needed to be addressed urgently:
Improved court access for Troubles-related cases
Continued use of the ICRIR
Conclusion of outstanding public inquiries
Access to a mediation process based on conditional amnesties
The establishment of a joint British-Irish review body to monitor progress.
CEPL discussion on the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy And Reconciliation) Act (2023)
On 26th November 2021, CEPL hosted a public forum to discuss a legal opinion on the compatibility of the Truth Recovery Process with the European Convention on Human Rights, the issue being whether it represented a sort of amnesty for murder which would contravene the Convention on the right to life.
Between Memory & Legacy: Navigating the Dark Past of Irish History - A Glencree@50 Event
'Between Memory and Legacy, Navigating The Dark Past of Irish History' was the focus of a dialogue facilitated by Glencree's Community & Political Dialogue Programme as part of an ongoing series of events to mark 50 years since the founding of Glencree.
Oireachtas Committee Meeting (May 2023)
'Truth Recovery Process members meet the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, May 4th, 2023 at Leinster House'
NI Troubles (Legacy & Reconciliation) Act and the alternatives (Mar 2024)
A critical debate on the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act and the Alternatives'