poni Archives - McGurk's Bar Massacre

Gerard Keenan McGurks Bar and the Office of the Police Ombudsman

Legal Proceedings against the Office of the Police Ombudsman

Leave a Comment / Press, Court, Event, Family, Legacy Archive Research / By Ciarán

Pree Release: McGurk’s Bar families begin legal proceedings against the Office of the Police Ombudsman. Families of those killed and injured in the McGurk’s Bar Massacre have been forced to initiate legal proceedings against the Office of the Police Ombudsman for its: (1) Failure to complete a 2015 complaint regarding serious allegations against present policing […]

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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

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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.

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