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McGurk's Bar Families Protest Policing Board

Chief Constable Leaves McGurk’s Bar Families ‘Out in the Cold’

The families of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre are gravely disappointed that Chief Constable Simon Byrne chose not to meet them at the Policing Board (Thursday 2nd December). The families were there two days before the 50th anniversary of the atrocity to protest the Police Service Northern Ireland’s withholding of evidence relating to collusion between the […]
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McGurk's Bar Families Protest Policing Board

Policing Board Protest Before 50th Anniversary of the Atrocity

Families of the 15 civilians murdered in the McGurk’s Bar Massacre are protesting the Northern Ireland Policing Board on Thursday 2nd December, two days before the 50th anniversary of the atrocity. The families are protesting the Police Service Northern Ireland’s withholding of evidence relating to collusion between the Royal Ulster Constabulary and British Army in […]
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McGurk's Bar Massacre and General Sir Frank Kitson

Fusiliers Intelligence at Odds with McGurk’s Bar Lies

New evidence from secret British military archives proves that the Fusiliers regiment which helped dig for survivors in the rubble of McGurk’s Bar, reported intelligence within minutes of the explosion to its Headquarters at odds with the subsequent lies spun by the British armed forces. At 2128 hours (9:28pm), around 42 minutes after the Ulster […]
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Cabinet Office, London

Cabinet Office Complaint To Parliamentary Ombudsman

The McGurk’s Bar Massacre families have been forced to make a complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman against the British Cabinet Office just days before the 50th anniversary of the atrocity. As far as the families are aware, this is the first complaint of its kind to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman […]
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Lt. General Sir Harry Tuzo and Lord Carrington

GOC Tuzo’s Christmas Message and McGurk’s Bar

What did the head of the British Army in the north, Harry Tuzo, know about the McGurk’s Bar Massacre? Lieutenant General Sir Harry Tuzo was General Officer Commanding (GOC) the British Army at the time of the atrocity, having begun his distinguished military career before World War 2. This is what we know he knew […]
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McGurk's Bar Massacre and General Sir Frank Kitson

New Website – New Evidence to Come – 50th Anniversary

The families of McGurk Bar Massacre have launched this new website in time for the 50th anniversary of the atrocity. The new website commemorates the fifteen civilians murdered in the no-warning Loyalist attack on McGurk’s Bar, those who survived, and their families who have waged a tireless Campaign for Truth over half a century. In […]
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McGurk's Bar Protest v Office of the Police Ombudsman

McGurk’s Bar Families Protest the Office of the Police Ombudsman

Families of those killed and injured in the McGurk’s Bar Massacre protested the Office of the Police Ombudsman (OPONI) on 18th August 2021. The McGurk’s Bar families protested to highlight Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson’s: Failure to complete a timely and effective investigation of the families’ complaint against currently serving police officers of the Police Service […]
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McGurk's Bar Massacre and General Sir Frank Kitson

MoD Withholding Evidence of British Army Witness

Press Release: The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) is withholding evidence of a British Army witness on the night of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been forced to admit that it does indeed know the name and rank of a British soldier involved in a covert British military “ambush” […]
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Artist Sinéad Ó'Neill-Nicholl Never the Same McGurk's Bar

Never the Same

Artist Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl will be talking about her new project, Never the Same, during Imagine! Belfast Festival. Never the Same is a project that Sinéad is developing with the families of those who were killed and injured in the McGurk’s Bar bombing of 4th December 1971. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the atrocity, […]
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The cover of the new book by Ciarán MacAirt called Trope

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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.