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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spanning dramatic development only mostly. i don't see how that strategy will be successful ready. to sit down and talk. hooper though you know they have so being you. just can't you know pretty. boy it's.
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just. life without fashion. style without things that might be seen as weakness in this masculine world but they still demonstrate incredible strength of spirit. as they choose. for. i've. never. felt that.
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i've. done it died. not. the area was cordoned off at 1st light this morning by. he's army technical experts went in to examine the bodies in case they had been booby trapped. could you think might be responsible for. now scully body around here and they'll tell you. first says within lay what we describe as the murder triangle quarter
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done to the lightened up to offload cloyd 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 the sort of meat amenable to justice for. assassinations and barbarous a movie if you do they are they are my 5 and my 6 politicians on mordecai. the borderland of south armada the new area of ireland steeped in celtic mythology where the ghosts of colon queen may have been mccoll 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 the 10th century ports such as ark mccurry park model longdon and shamus more much more of hope for. a land where ancient 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 it's. fallen out my mother in the late sixty's and they got married and set up home and belfast at the time my father was working in the rolls royce fact. fost. until some of his war college find out he was a catholic and he had to leave. he then worked as a postman in the area for a while at this stage we were living in the style military of. there are a small number of catholic families living in the area at the time and hand on we'd
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been warned on a number of occasions it was time to move out and i suppose the final straw for us was on our almost after one of our near neighbors at windows and i am obviously say to state it was time to move. on the decision was taken to move on a stage. band from birmingham mommy wanted to move there she felt would be safer but my father loved the countryside so moch so we ended up there. i suppose my last recollections of my father are and leaving to go to the hospital to visit mommy and my sister ocean and she was only 2 days old at the time. not really the last that i can remember of c.n.n. going out to that the front door to visit them in the hospital. 'd and the particular even my aunt and was with my father on the intention was to stop
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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 bar. 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 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. it might only in the. most instantly. the bomb exploded then my father was probably already dead because he'd been shot before.
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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 would assist with seeing. all had been killed explained to his widow who was sitting in the room with me exactly what has happened and it was a shocking shocking experience it was the best time that bracknell has heard how husband had been. i think the shock of what we're trying to. do the family really
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how little we know about my fall is killing and 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 interaction was quite different it was not enough a catholic substory. i was just so disappointed and higher that this reaction to what i've discovered. i pushed for the storage be written under the end it was. in and around this time started to emerge about what would have been. norma's loyalist attacks in the area. i suppose i didn't know much more about watertown other than that are going to call the right on commando claimed responsibility for the attack. so at this time i begin to ask questions of myself about what i did or didn't know but what i've actually happened i started to ask
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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 and at that stage someone mentioned to me the depart for newton center and derry help families and similar 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 was a photocopy or or or a printer and instead he began to tell us about the attack on the part one of 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 clues behavior and a number of attacks on 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 cannot
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differ on close on the. bloody sunday just as 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 and obviously these had never been followed by official bodies or for people in authority even little it's being hugely painful and traumatic and we've lived as 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 to hop and over just across the country what happened to neil or part. they was partial in the sense that if we were in the room we appointed to get either
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a witness to something the how to lead piece of evidence that connected to another one connected to and that will really was unfolding was the sense that there was this gang security force people who were supposed to protect people supposed to bring people there just those who were actually conducting these killings and county in the most. 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 realize that we were going to solve and 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 low rank that they believed was a person of integrity they believed he tried to get to the bottom of this but couldn't. he talk to the families
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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 on a bias silverbridge 24 years ago have appealed for a fresh inquiry into that trust say. so we arranged a press conference. and appealed for him to come forward we thought at all likely but in fact he did and he made contact with us shortly afterwards through a journalist. it was quite an extraordinary making the many ways we were calm. by a number of family members and this police officer who still serve and made a number of statements i thought me made austria lace up what we were looking up was actually a much wider range of attacks we were cannot was the klan on counting. demanding to come out of the meeting which i was the term he used permutations of the same gun
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were also responsible for the other attacks and so time consuming the murder sean from one called mccartney in august 1075 who are returning from some the final of a football match on the also the dublin on monaghan bombings of me in 1074. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. directly. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the
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depths. aura made in the shallowness. was abundant make no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. has emerged little time with the we don't look like seen the whole world needs to be. judged. come in a crisis with this system to modern times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing. it's your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together.
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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 and 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 so it wasn't until 1996 that we began to get things more
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organized and we caution legal team greg oni 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 mash by the then tasia and for the 1st time. the jury. will be present. to. those who were present at the choice of the old. ones when the 1st instance of us were grown to 22000000 freeways we would say on this important issue to marry will be hard
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to go to on the 42nd anniversary. when i was walking and. the westfield motor company. tortie going to character men for little perpetual and out of the slogan of it no money to
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bring. and next i remember was the priest. to me you have solution. and down. when i'm gone 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 wonder they got to know what an author of from the hospital cheetham over she ran out she got the power. they command i was brought. up to tell you there's ready and i was. 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 at the window to see who was there expecting that she had just. been hit on the head and has amnesia and she remembered something and compact was. so much went on for months and months and months to happen if i would see somebody else kind of had a hairstyle like our looks like her from the back of his house from his heart. you know very very difficult not having closure. although at that time the pad for new consent and justice for the gotten was
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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 didn't even started writing 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 just statement saying that they are you see had a 100 percent failure rate in convicting anyone for these murders they went to dublin they went to belfast they wrote letters to the papers yet it seems that the police would just not interested.
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and that is why you have no go areas but there you go and all the other this was. it was a friend of mine and he visited presence of course and then 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 called a triangle going down an area right into the my and over to for god and as we were getting the 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. had went very quickly a show we published a 2nd when the word additions to it me published a 3rd for
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a copy of more editions snow that became a satirist a central document and. we noticed that. so many of these murders were happy and it seemed to us that the roads were open valleys and murders to come in and kill people and get over on and get away again. it was an architect or sharkey after 10 i got up and went and how sure dads. and 10 men were standing on last night for our spotting and i told her don't
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yap so her attorney back to left the room. the door. went and said another shopper. sat them on the table and heard him say. want to know you better me here i'm not going. to the tone of his voice. and to manhattan through the front door. to shop. that has. no wall found. and where they haul them up like you know. just lay there
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for a moment there's. no crowd trying. to put a card. to call for. one of the children. and she came. home to. her father's head. 3 broken. down across the road. and he came. from a way to create. an. air through and through. must
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have been about him. for wakes at peace came to do or. say had they had to. come i dared to ask or text somebody with me and they said no you're better on your own. get. back to the car now who wants. to financed all interest range not a sinner and that i know. and when i got 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 the mound 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. i didn't go to the end of the nagging turn not come back pick. a worse. out of me a ticket on the response made. me to recognise that the message. but i was in the state suv there let me through the door
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into the hallway to compose my sound. back in. a moment. 5. 101. but i could not touch i couldn't get my hand on them. i know what didn't put my hand on them. i mean. i know pay for a watch. go back. but i told them yes.
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. one else seemed wrong when old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape our disdain become educated and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look
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