As an MLA for Loughinisland, I add my voice to those of my colleagues in remembering those who were so grossly murdered that night 30 years ago and their families, who live with that tragedy every day. For the benefit of Members who have never been to Loughinisland, it is a small place: a rural village with a school, a chapel, a pub and a few houses, where the local shop is a few minutes' walk away. It is nestled off the main Belfast to Newcastle road. Thousands will have passed it, but most will not have given a thought to what happened there 30 years ago. On that night, the pub was packed with people watching a football match. With the Euros currently on, that could be happening in many places this week. Those people went out to watch a football match and to have a few pints, but the carnage that occurred brought an end to that.

I was in Donegal that night with friends from Loughinisland. That was before social media and before mobile phones were really in use. I remember the car journey home as the news was coming through. Then the names came through. Each one was known to my friends, and the sense of pain was palpable. The fact that there has never been any justice is frightening. That is the case not because those who did those horrendous murders are unknown but because our system is unwilling. We must change that. Families must get justice. The pain that Loughinisland still feels must be allowed to heal, but, for so many, that cannot and will not happen.

In remembering Eamon Byrne, Barney Green, Malcolm Jenkinson, Dan McCreanor, Patsy O'Hare and Adrian Rogan — who was the father of a former MLA — the pain that is felt for them goes on, but the support of the community for their families is as strong as ever.