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Families of Loughinisland victims meet to watch football 22 years on

Posted By: June 18, 2016

Gareth McKeown. Irish Times. Saturday, June 18, 2016   RELATIVES of those who died in the Loughinisland atrocity in 1994 will meet later to watch the Republic play Belgium in the same bar where their loved ones tragically lost their lives 22 years ago.On June 18, 1994 masked gunmen burst into the packed Heights Bar and opened fire at […]

Probe terminology brings real prospect of Loughinisland charges

Posted By: June 16, 2016

Newton Emerson. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, June 16, 2016 The Loughinisland report is being debated, predictably, in terms of the definition of collusion.Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire bypassed that debate when he referred to “corrupt relationships” between loyalists and some RUC officers.Solicitors for the Loughinisland families have picked up on this but few others seem to have noticed. There is so […]

Collusion was on a grand scale

Posted By: June 14, 2016

“[Police Ombudsman]Dr Maguire’s findings were much more damning than a failure to properly investigate and what he called a “hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil” attitude among some members of Special Branch in their control of loyalist informers.He found that security services had prior knowledge of the South African arms shipment but did not prevent the weapons being smuggled and then […]

Lawyer murdered ‘by army-run death squad’

Posted By: June 14, 2016

“Questioning why the authorities appeared to regard the [ Pat Finucane] murder as the most difficult from the Troubles, the barrister continued: “The answer is because in this liberal democracy where the rule of law is supposed to be paramount, the army is running death squads of a kind normally associated with Latin American dictatorships of the era.”Investigations into the assassination carried out […]

Test weapons not decommissioned, call

Posted By: June 14, 2016

Allison Morris. Irish News (Belfast).Tuesday, June 14, 2016THERE should be no new decommissioning until investigations into a shipment of weapons brought into Northern Ireland with the knowledge of intelligence services are concluded, Danny Lavery has said.A solicitor acting for families whose loved ones were murdered with the South African arms also said any remaining guns should be forensically tested.A panel set up to examine […]

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