A Sinn Fein MP says she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder due to Troubles trauma.
Fermanagh and South Tyrone representative Michelle Gildernew was speaking in Dublin during a meeting of the Oireachtas committee on the Good Friday Agreement.
The political veteran grew up Co Tyrone in the 1970s and 80s where her family took part in the civil rights’ campaign.
She spoke about her PTSD diagnosis on Thursday as Northern Ireland’s Victims and Survivors Commissioner Judith Thompson urged the committee to press the Irish Government to probe atrocities that took place in their jurisdiction to secure answers for grieving families.
Ms Gildernew, 49, highlighted victims of less well-known atrocities.
“There are victims and survivors right across these islands, while the Dublin and Monaghan bombings understandably get a lot of attention, there were bombings in Cavan as well and families bereaved and children who died as a result of that,” she told the committee.
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