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Boutcher and Shillington

Information Rights Tribunal Judgement: Police Lies and the Protection of Agents

By Ciarán | February 12, 2025
In an historic legal win for the families, the Information Rights Tribunal has ordered the Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI) to disclose evidence in Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) files regarding the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. This followed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) battle that has lasted over four years for the origin of […]
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Boutcher and Shillington

Historic Legal Victory for Massacre Families: PSNI Fails to Prove Origin of Police Lies

By Ciarán | February 5, 2025
An Information Tribunal has ordered the Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI) to hand over evidence in police files regarding the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. In a historic legal win for the families, the Information Rights Tribunal has ordered the Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland to disclose evidence in Royal Ulster Constabulary […]
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Big Bill Campbell and the McGurk's Bar Massacre

No Reform for the Campbell Clan

By Ciarán | December 21, 2024
Another member of the Bridgeton Campbell clan was in the news this week. The British rightwing populist Reform UK [a private limited company] removed Craig Campbell as its Scottish organiser after the Daily Record approached Nigel Farage’s party about Campbell’s Facebook posts and family background. The newspaper revealed Campbell to be the son of William […]
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Photo Fusiliers 2 RRF Atillery Gt. George's Street cropped

British Army Observation Posts: Photo Appeal on Massacre Anniversary

By Ciarán | December 4, 2024
Photo appeal on the 53rd anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. The families of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre Campaign for Truth have launched a photo appeal that could provide further visual proof of key British Army observation posts overlooking the Gem Bar and McGurk’s Bar taken by an unknown photographer the morning after the massacre. […]
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John Taylor

John Taylor Should Put Up or Shut Up

By Ciarán | November 19, 2024
John Taylor is attempting to blacken the good names of the victims of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre online again by insinuating they were not innocent in the atrocity which claimed the lives of 15 civilians including women and 2 children on 4th December 1971. As readers of this website know, before we had buried our […]
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Ciarán Murphy, Ardoyne Gael

Ciarán Murphy: 50th Anniversary of Ardoyne Gael

By Ciarán | October 13, 2024
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

By Ciarán | August 5, 2024
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

By Ciarán | July 23, 2024
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

By Ciarán | June 25, 2024
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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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.

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