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Ciarán Murphy, Ardoyne Gael

Ciarán Murphy: 50th Anniversary of Ardoyne Gael

Today (13th October 2024) marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of Ardoyne Gael, Ciarán Murphy. Ciarán was 17 years of age when he was abducted and murdered by a gang of Loyalist extremists that included several British state agents. This article is printed with the permission of his nephew, Niall Ó Murchú. It featured […]
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Boutcher and Shillington

Information Commissioner’s Office ICO Upholds Police Decision to Withhold Fingerprint Evidence

Information Commissioner Office (ICO) Supports PSNI Withholding Evidence. Press Release. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has upheld Police Service Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) refusal to release basic information relating to fingerprint evidence police gathered in the aftermath of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre in 1971. The families believe the police have either destroyed the evidence or it […]
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Sam McClenaghan RIP

Sam McClenaghan – Stalwart of the McGurk’s Bar Campaign for Truth – Dies

Sam McClenaghan – one of the oldest and most determined family members of the McGurk’s Bar Campaign for Truth – has died aged 94. It is with heavy hearts and profound sadness that we announce the passing of Samuel “Sam” McClenaghan, a cherished husband, father, grandfather, and tireless family campaigner. Sam left this world peacefully […]
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Gerard Keenan at the McGurk's Bar mural

Our Resistance to Forced Forgetting – Academic Study by Professor Laura McAtackney

A powerful academic study of our work by Professor Laura McAtackney is open to all from today. You now have open access to Professor McAtackney’s research paper: “Material Dissonances in the Post-Conflict City: Re-Presencing Social Injustice in Belfast, Northern Ireland”. Professor McAtackney has produced a compelling study on the power of memorialization and our campaign […]
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Boutcher and Shillington

Attorney General Orders New Inquests for Massacre Victims

The Attorney General of Northern Ireland has ordered new inquests for victims of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. In a landmark decision, the Attorney General for Northern Ireland has ordered new inquests for victims of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. 15 civilians including 2 children were murdered in the no-warning Loyalist bomb attack on McGurk’s Bar on […]
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Boutcher and Shillington

Information Watchdog Investigates Police Refusal

Information Commissioner Office Investigates Police Again. Press Release. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating Police Service Northen Ireland’s refusal to hand over basic information relating to fingerprint evidence police gathered in the aftermath of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. The families believe the police have either destroyed the evidence or it relates to named Loyalist […]
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McGurk's Bar Massacre and General Sir Frank Kitson

Spooks: the Battle for Belfast and the BBC

Ongoing information battles against the cops after we proved Brigadier Frank Kitson and the cops had a secret agreement to blame the victims of the massacre.
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McGurk's Bar Massacre

McGurk’s Families Contest Information Tribunal Against Police on Anniversary

Ongoing information battles against the cops after we proved Brigadier Frank Kitson and the cops had a secret agreement to blame the victims of the massacre.
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McGurk's Bar Massacre - Kitson, Byrne and Shillington

Kitson-Cop Collusion – Information Watchdog Rules Against the Cops

Ongoing information battles against the cops after we proved Brigadier Frank Kitson and the cops had a secret agreement to blame the victims of the massacre.
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The cover of the new book by Ciarán MacAirt called Trope

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Support the work of the charity, Paper Trail.

The author Ciarán MacAirt is donating all of the profits of his book, Trope: Essays and Articles, to Paper Trail and its work with victims and survivors of the conflict, including the families of the McGurk's Bar Massacre.

Trope features some of his ground-breaking discoveries and represents a personal journey as he trudges across the killing fields of World War 1 to the back-streets of Belfast where death-squads roamed. In it, he asks whether General Sir Frank Kitson who helped cover up the McGurk's Bar Massacre was a British military hero or director of terrorism. Foreword by Father Sean McManus, international human rights activist, author, and President of the Irish National Caucus.