Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Catholic Priest and the Claudy murders

Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.uk

Report due on claims of Claudy bombing priest link

1972 bombing of Claudy
Father James Chesney died in 1980 without ever having been questioned about the Claudy attack. Photograph: PA

Northern Ireland's police ombudsman today publishes a report into the 1972 bombing of Claudy, in Derry, which killed nine people and injured 30.

Father James Chesney was transferred to a parish in the Irish republic, which is outside the UK criminal jurisdiction. He died of cancer in 1980 aged 46.

Three car bombs went off in the village, 11 miles from Derry, where British paratroopers had shot and killed 13 unarmed men attending a civil rights march six months earlier, on Bloody Sunday.

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1 comment:

  1. And the Government invite the Pope over here for his holidays,at the cost of £20 million to the British taxpayer.
    What about "THE BUCK STOPS HERE," MR POPE?

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