Report due on claims of Claudy bombing priest link
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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For those who don't remember it, this is part of the UK long since forgotten by immigrants and those with no feeling for this British Nation.
To all the immigrant academics, just keep out of this debate. If you must talk, get things into perspective and get your facts correct.
In the recent conflagration in the Falklands Margaret Thatcher went out of her way to thank the nations of the UK for their sacrifices, and then ignored the soldiers and sailors and airmen from Ulster.
The stories that the Catholic Church was actively involved with the IRA must be openly investigated and reported to the victims of terrorist violence. That means everyone.
The re-emergence of the IRA threat must be made public or many more atrocities will go unreported and dismissed by public apathy.
And the Government invite the Pope over here for his holidays,at the cost of £20 million to the British taxpayer.
ReplyDeleteWhat about "THE BUCK STOPS HERE," MR POPE?