information Archives - McGurk's Bar Massacre

Chief Constable Matt Baggott oversaw the irrational HET report

Press Release: McGurk’s Bar Commemoration Committee

Leave a Comment / Family, Press / By Ciarán

McGurk’s Bar Families Petition the Northern Ireland Policing Board on the Anniversary of the Atrocity Date: Thursday 4th December 2012 (the 43rd anniversary of the atrocity) Time: 2pm Place: Northern Ireland Policing Board, Waterside Tower, 31 Clarendon Road, Clarendon Dock, Belfast BT1 3BG Families of those murdered in the McGurk’s Bar massacre are petitioning the Policing Board …

Press Release: McGurk’s Bar Commemoration Committee Read More »

In Their Footsteps

Leave a Comment / Event, Family, Press / By Ciarán

In Their Footsteps – the mission: We intend to mobilise families and individuals throughout Ireland who wish to pursue truth and justice for their loved ones killed and/or injured as a result of the conflict, to unite for a peaceful Day of Action in Dublin on Saturday, 14 June 2014. This date for has …

In Their Footsteps Read More »

Colin Wallace speaks at the Westminster book launch

A Few Words from Colin Wallace… and Aeschylus

Leave a Comment / Blog, Book / By Ciarán

I imagined that there were more than a few raised eyebrows in the offices of the Historical Enquiries Team, the Police Ombudsman and Chief Constable when the Irish News headlined with news that Colin Wallace was not only a close contact of mine but also had written the foreword to my book. Colin Wallace (right) …

A Few Words from Colin Wallace… and Aeschylus Read More »

Michael Connarty, nephew of Philip Garry, the eldest victim of the McGurk's Bar bombing.

HET Shunts McGurk’s Bar Investigation BACK at the Police Ombudsman

Leave a Comment / Family, Party Politics, Press / By Ciarán

The Historical Enquiries Team (HET) has finally completed the McGurk’s Bar Report… and referred it BACK to the Police Ombudsman. (Post on behalf of the McGurk’s Bar Commemoration Committee) On Thursday 6th December, Labour MP, Michael Connarty, urged the British Prime Minister to apologise to the families of the McGurk’s Bar victims and order a “proper investigation”. A …

HET Shunts McGurk’s Bar Investigation BACK at the Police Ombudsman Read More »

RUC Put Out False Story Within Hours of McGurk’s Bar Attack

1 Comment / Press / By Ciarán

Irish News exclsuive by Allison Morris, 28th October 2009 New documents relating to the McGurk’s bar bombing in 1971 show how the false claim that it was an ‘IRA own goal’ was being circulated within hours of the atrocity. Campaigners for victims of the loyalist attack, which claimed the lives of 15 innocent civilians including …

RUC Put Out False Story Within Hours of McGurk’s Bar Attack Read More »

MI5 in the Frame for McGurk’s Disinformation

MI5 Black Propaganda

Leave a Comment / Party Politics, Press / By Ciarán

This latest archive find (click here to read) is from a British army Headquarters Northern Ireland Intelligence Summary (HQNI INTSUM), dated 9th December 1971, 5 days after the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. It represents British black propaganda in stark terms as they seek to criminalize innocent civilians to fit twisted military strategy. HQNI INTSUMS were written …

MI5 Black Propaganda Read More »

Unmasking Lt. Col. Bernard Renouf Johnston

Police Ombudsman Fiasco

Leave a Comment / Party Politics, Press / By Ciarán

The release and abortion of the Police Ombudsman’s report (8.7.10) into the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s (RUC) investigation of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre was an ill-conceived, unmitigated fiasco. The report and their media stage-management was Kafkaesque at its most benign. The Police Ombudsman railroaded our families, many of whom are aged, into this very public miscarriage. …

Police Ombudsman Fiasco Read More »