If ghosts of the past haunt Sinn Fein, it's because party has failed to lay them to rest

Stephen and Breege Quinn holding a photo of their murdered son Paul

Suzanne Breen

The last time Breege Quinn saw her son alive he was lying on a hospital bed with a ventilator tube protruding from his mouth, his eyes half open.

His head was swollen and there were gashes on his face. His right ear was torn off. Every major bone below his neck was broken. The doctors told her that "nothing could be fixed".