Legacy Act: Legal action may have consequences warns NIO minister, as TD says 'murder is murder'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Multiple Troubles victims and family members are supporting a separate legal challenge against aspects of the Act at Belfast High Court.
49% : Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said his government was left with "no option" but to legally challenge the Government over the Act.
46% : "As a society we have got to have this proper debate about how we're going to reconcile and that's a conversation with everybody, and that's why there's been so much angst over the Legacy Act in terms of this was foisted upon us by one political party and it hasn't been a consensus by anybody north or south," he said.
40% : This legal action has been branded "misguided" by the Secretary of State.
32% : Tánaiste Mícheál Martin announced on Wednesday that the Irish Government would be taking a legal case against the UK, arguing the Legacy Act is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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