Patrick Murphy is an Irish News columnist and former director of Belfast Institute for Further and Higher Education. Their aim, they say, is to “enable the truth” (not establish, just enable) for “families of the Troubles” (except Sean Brown’s family). That could be revealed in an all-Ireland Truth Commission, where the main organisations involved in the Troubles would be asked to explain what they did and why they did it. Dealing with the past requires the British government to explain why it authorised internment, torture, Ballymurphy and Bloody Sunday. It is a truth so uncomfortable that the main players in the Troubles will never honestly address it.