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they'll tell you. first says with inlay what we describe as they murder triangle quarter done to lighten dr off look like where there have been more sectarian assassinations are ahead of the population than anywhere else nor the lower. the awful thing is that not a single one has been sort of meat amenable to justice for. assassinations and barbarous a movie if you do they are their life 5 m i 6 politician the son of murder guy. the borderland of south armada the new area of ireland steeped in celtic mythology where the ghosts of colon clean meth in the code and. haunt the country's many burial cairns and crypt. its rugged slopes green
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themes and sweeping plains reach out to the fuse that cradle the resting places of 18th century ports such as our could could park much along than and shamus more much more hope for. a land where instant quarrels have been settled but yet find time to reignite. there is an ironic tragedy between the beauty of this land and the dark secrets that hold us. for following up my mother in the late sixties and to get married and set up home and all foster. at the time my father was working in the rolls royce factory in belfast. until some of us were colleagues find out he was a catholic and he had to leave. it and worked as a postman in the area for a while at this stage we were living in the some military of else on. there are
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a small number of catholic families living in there. and we've been warned on a number of occasions it was time to move out and i suppose the final straw for us was. almost after one of our neighbors. say to stage it was time to move. on the decision was taken to move on a stage. mommy wanted to move. but my father left the countryside so moch so we ended up there. i suppose my last recollections of my father are leaving to go to the hospital to visit my sister ocean and she was only 2 days old at the time. not really the last that i can remember of them going out to the front door to visit them in the hospital. 'd particularly even my
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aunt and was with my father on the intention was to stop it on the spot on the way home and i was out of breakers drunk with his workmates. they'd only just arrived about the same time as the gunmen. shot up the front of the. domain killing him almost immediately michael don't leave the bar owner sold into the bar none had banged the door. he was followed into the bar by a white on man who spread to the inside of the building with bullets. hitting my father on the on the number of other individuals and seriously injuring them then threw in a bomb. hit michael dunn in the back of the head and killed him almost instantly. the bomb exploded. my father was probably already there because he'd been shot and before
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long. i came to work in ireland in 1981 and i found myself increasingly drawn to cases of miscarriages of justice when nobody else was taking a particular interest and also in the potential for the state to take life illegally and as a journalist you're always looking for stories that nobody else is investigating it was an ordinary sunday morning and i was reading the paper and a name sprang out of the page at me breck girl somebody called bracknell had been killed in south. and i thought breck no that's not a south. so i managed to contact the family and went down to meet them and i asked eyewitnesses with scene. in all had been killed explained to his widow who was sitting in the room with me exactly what had happened and it was a shocking shocking experience it was the best time that an bracknell has heard how
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her husband had been mad i think the shock of finding out what we're trying to. do the family really how little we know about my followers killing up he was actually responsible for. i phone my news desk expecting them to leap on the story and say give us everything you've got but the irrational was quite different it was oh no not enough a catholic sob story so i was just so so disappointed and high that his reaction to what i've discovered. i pushed for the story to be written under the end it was. in iran this time from started to emerge about what would be enormous loyalist attacks in the area. i suppose i didn't know much more about water column other than the other group called a right wing commando claimed responsibility for the it art. so at this time i
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begin to ask questions of myself about what i did or didn't know but what i actually help and i started to ask questions of local people about what they remembered about what they knew about the night and but we didn't know it really know where to go to try and find out more answers and someone mentioned to me the center and dairy help families and summer situations to ourselves. i think it was 100-1009. 100 the office very softly spoken very friendly and he was wearing a suit and we thought he's going to sell us a photocopy or or or a printer and instead he began to tell us about the attack on the part one about his dad and what happened on the back rent he was aware that there was now for david available where we made a number of very serious allegations by collusion behavior and a number of attacks in the area. so we agreed we would look at it in detail and look at all the different attacks that happened in the area at the time it was all very new deals. up to the point we've been active in the number of cases we've been
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knocked off or on close to some the. closest on the justice campaign was was based on the office and we agreed to call together a meeting of what it says on the g. and silverbridge and what to says came forward a lot of witnesses came forward. and i suppose the significance of the meeting was that you had families with evidence and information but you also had witnesses the events on the significance of this being that there were so many connections so many permutations so many leads to follow obviously needs it never been followed by official bodies or for people in authority even little it's being hugely painful and traumatic and we've lived through this you know this is something we need to do we need to take this forward and you know what happened in my home in my local was killed in the incident is connected to what happened on the road is connected the happened over just across the other country what happened. at the. it was partial
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in the sense that if we were in the room we appointed to get either a witness to something the how to lead piece of evidence that connected to another one connected to and what really was unfolding was the sense that there was this. security force people who were supposed to protect people supposed to bring people to just those who were actually conducting these killings and coming in the moat. you might imagine that in a normal situation they'd been they'd been asked to give statements that the police would have asked them for statements this hadn't happened. they came forward and we began to release up we were going to something much much bigger. as we began to research this under talk to people in the local area many of them told also there was actually an officer involved in the original list he was actually in charge although he was novice or very little rank that they believed was a person of integrity they believed he tried to get to the bottom of those but couldn't
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. he talk to the families a number of times over the years and they the families told us that he will be an absolutely fatal person for us to talk to. belfast families of those killed in an attack and advise silverbridge 24 years ago have appealed for a fresh inquiry into that atrocity. so we arranged a press conference. and appealed for him to come forward we thought of the unlikely but in fact he did and he made contact with us shortly afterwards through a journalist. it was quite an extraordinary making a many ways we were accompanied by a number of family members and this police officer who still serve and made a number of statements i mean that made all surreal what we were looking up was actually a much wider range of attacks we were lucky. it was the. night of the meeting which
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when some find themselves worlds apart. from common ground. in a series of coordinated attacks during rush hour traffic 3 no warning bombs exploded causing mayhem across the city center. 11 people were killed in parnell street 14 including an unborn child in tall but street and 2 women in southland street in almost simultaneous attacks. 90 minutes later 7 people were killed when the gang planted another bomb in the center of. the glen a gang had affected their deadliest attack yet. i got involved in 993 i mesh with some of the families and i was helping them very much on an ad hoc basis to begin with it wasn't until 1996 that we began to
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get things more organized and we caution legal team grego name and solicitor and karma got to look on barrister we gave the organization then the name justice for the for that was in january of 96. we went on then to try to get the irish government to provide a public inquiry into the dublin mama and bombings all doors were closed to us on terror 999 which was the 25th anniversary of the bombings and the family mashed by the then tasia and for the 1st time. the jury. will be present. to those of those who were present those who were going to. the ones in the 1st instance the rest were
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almighty bang. and next i remember was the priest. to me you have solution. on down. and i'm going from those going around to the hospital and had another explosion. and then i woke up and i was. just i woke up in the. i was pronounced dead in the royal. well no where was actually. moaning i want the ladies i got to know what an author of from the hospital cheetham over she found out she got the power of the doctors they command i was prof casuistry. right up to when there's ready and i was injured. and i was 3 months in his hands carried on in a coma. it took an awful long time
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to an explosion. on. and i remember. and as a child it. when the doorbell would ring or something like that i'd always go into the front room and look out the window to see who was there expecting that she has just. been hit on the head and remembered something and compactness. so much went on for months and months and months to happen if i would see somebody kind of had a hairstyle like our look like her from the back of his house from his heart. you know it was very very difficult not having closure.
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although at that time the panther knew consent and justice for the mccarton were beginning to investigate the activities of the glen i'm going already to very ordinary catholic priests living in the area have done a fair amount of investigation themselves they do even started rushing to the newspapers and trying to get the 2 governments involved because they realized that there must be a cohesive gang working in the so called murder trial carrying out these murders it had to be there were too many of them they did everything they could to highlight it after one series of 17 much as they should the statement saying that they are you see had a 100 percent failure rate in convicting anyone for these murders and they went to dublin they went to belfast they wrote letters to the papers yet it seems that the police were just not interested.
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and that is why you have no go areas but there you go and on the other the list. it was a friend of mine and he visited presence of course and he was very interested in what was going on and around on jan and we saw that there were a lot of murders in what we call the triangle going down an area right into the my and over to for the dine and dash we were given a list of all the stats and then i decided that we should list them publish them and publish the 1st. on the subject at the triangle of death and it was a name that was taken up by the media because ever afterwards they talked about it and the murder triangle so we left the time and the little information we had from relatives at the time. and published the path which it. had went very quickly so we published a 2nd one and the word additions to it me published a 3rd for
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a couple of more editions so at that became a side trip a central document and. we noticed that. so many of these murders were hot and it seemed to us that the roads were open for these murders to come in and kill people and get over on and get away again and. it was an architect or sharkey after 10 i got up and went and house shirt ads.
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and 10 men were standing on last night for our spot thing and i told him yeah so our returning back to left him. the door. went and said another shopper over so no way to set them on the table. heard him say. want to know you better me here i'm not going. and. by the tone of his voice. and these 2 men had them through the front door. to shop. that has. no wall around. and
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have been about. 4 wakes police came to door. say had they had the dentist. i dared to ask or could attack somebody with me and they said no you're better on your own. i did get tell you. i was pregnant back of the care are now i want spoke. onst all strange now it's a sinner and i you know. and. there they told me. i had to go into this room they were selling to me and. could. see that they were nice and they thought i.
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had been in. the door and it was on mon inside the door but he stayed there on the other place mom says. not to walk up this room langham am. dead reckoning face i just couldn't. go today and then. turn back. a worse. fate. out of me a ticket on the response made. me to to recognize that the message as. i was in the state so that at least through the door
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the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. nuclear become a battleground in the us in vermont people love demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no claire power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it
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moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional just. these are power lines with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways. a struggle. join me every day simon sure when i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics . i'm sure i'll see you then. i thought i had 300. theaters thought.
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