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Doug Beattie and UUP Silent on McGurk’s Bar Cover-Up
By Ciarán | February 19, 2022
Doug Beattie and the Ulster Unionist Party remain silent on the McGurk’s Bar cover-up. Commemoration is difficult and we have a year of difficult 50th-anniversary commemorations ahead for thousands of families this year. Many organisations and people, including former combatants have much to consider too – be they people who served in uniform or otherwise….
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Donaldson Commemoration Edited Version Not Full Context
By Ciarán | February 11, 2022
Response to a letter by Kenny Donaldson, spokesperson for Innocent Victims United. Kenny Donaldson wrote letters to the local newspapers recently, including the Irish News, which recounted the horror of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre and its victims (Vital to encourage thinking that expresses regret for every death, 31 January 2022). In the Irish News copy,…
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Infamous MRF Shooter Escapes Justice
By Ciarán | January 31, 2022
The infamous British Army MRF shooter, Clive Graham Williams, is dead. Clive Graham Williams, or Taff, as he was known to his gang members, was the prime shooter wanted in connection to a number of murders and attempted murders of civilians in Belfast in 1972. The charity Paper Trail connected him to at least 6 serious…
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BBC Response Welcomed
By Ciarán | January 11, 2022
Many thanks to the BBC for taking the time to consider our concerns and respond. It’s much appreciated by the families. “Editorial Complaint – BBC Northern Ireland I’m replying to your follow-up enquiry about contacts with the Belfast newsroom. The email address for press releases is bbcnewsni@bbc.co.uk. However, because around 30% of our staff are…
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The Guardian of McGurk’s Bar Massacre Lies
By Ciarán | December 24, 2021
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of heinous lies about our loved ones in The Guardian, a grandson of the McGurk’s Bar owner writes to the newspaper. The Guardian newspaper in Britain is one of those lofty newspapers of record but on Christmas Eve half a century ago it published egregious lies about the…
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Chief Constable: Prove Police Lies Or Admit Fabrication
By Ciarán | December 16, 2021
50 years ago today, the police Chief Constable and Head of Special Branch lied directly to the government about the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. On 16th December 1971, Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Chief Constable Graham Shillington and Assistant Chief Constable David Johnston, the Head of RUC Special Branch, attended a Joint Security Committee Meeting at Stormont,…
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MOD Denies It Holds Kitson-RUC Evidence
By Ciarán | December 14, 2021
The British Ministry of Defence (MOD) has denied it holds information relating to a secret agreement between General Sir Frank Kitson and the Royal Ulster Constabulary to promote lies about the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. The MOD denial is despite a record of it in the British Army’s Commander’s Diary just hours after the explosion. A…
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BBC Blackout on 50th Anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre?
By Ciarán | December 10, 2021
Family campaigners on legacy cases in the north of Ireland learn not to be precious about BBC media coverage, especially when the British state is involved in the murders and subsequent cover-ups. On any other occasion, there are many reasons why a media outlet will not cover a story. In the fast-moving environment of the…
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Black Propaganda and the Northern Ireland Prime Minister
By Ciarán | December 6, 2021
Two days after the McGurk’s Bar Massacre, the Northern Ireland Prime Minister, Brian Faulkner, flew to meet with Reginald Maudling, British Home Secretary, for crunch talks on security. The notes of the meeting, discovered by Pat Finucane Centre at Kew National Archives, show in stark terms how the cover-up went right to the top of…
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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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