# The Troubles

Last month

May 2023

# Memorial

Wreath laying takes place to mark 49th anniversary of Dublin-Monaghan bombings

35 people were killed by four no-warning bombs in 1974.

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May 17th 2023, 2:42 PM

# The Troubles

UVF provides report to family of John Crawford, who the group killed almost 50 years ago

Paul Crawford said there had been “good will, honesty and integrity” shown across the process, and received “full answers”.

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May 16th 2023, 7:47 AM

This year

2023

# GFA

Events marking 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement take place across island of Ireland

Victims of the Troubles gathered in Co Down to watch the sunrise this morning.

Political figures involved in the negotiations 25 years ago gathered for a commemorative event at Stormont today

Communities in the North are marking the anniversary with reflective events

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Apr 7th 2023, 8:31 PM

# The Troubles

Amnesty International calls for Irish Government to ‘put a marker down’ over UK’s legacy Bill

The legislation proposes offering immunity for people accused of crimes during the Troubles – as long as they co-operate with a new truth recovery body.

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Apr 6th 2023, 3:58 PM

# Dungannon

Kingsmill Troubles inquest ‘a painful and frustrating process for victims’ families’

The long-running proceedings heard final submissions today.

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Mar 31st 2023, 8:24 PM

# Aidan McAnespie

'We didn't want a pound of flesh': Aidan McAnespie's brother critical of sentence for David Holden

David Jonathan Holden, 53, was sentenced to three years at Belfast Crown Court this afternoon.

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Feb 2nd 2023, 2:48 PM

Last year

2022

# The Troubles

State Papers 1999: Mo Mowlam told Alec Reid she was 'f****d' if paramilitary killings continued

The late former NI Secretary of State was speaking as the decommissioning impasse rolled on.

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Dec 30th 2022, 8:30 PM

# The Disappeared

Families of Disappeared brave rain for walk in memory of loved ones

Relatives gathered together under umbrellas to say prayers, led by priest Father Joe Gormley.

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Nov 2nd 2022, 3:00 PM

# The Troubles

Troubles victims’ group calls Legacy Bill 'the biggest abuse of human rights in UK history'

The Legacy Bill would see a form of immunity offered to those who agree to co-operate with a new truth recovery body.

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Oct 31st 2022, 5:52 PM

# The Troubles

Halted prosecution of Soldier F over Bloody Sunday murders to resume

Prosecutors last year announced they were discontinuing the proceedings.

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Sep 22nd 2022, 3:12 PM

# Arrest

UK police arrest man at airport in connection with IRA's 1996 Manchester bomb

Greater Manchester Police have said that the man was arrested yesterday at Birmingham Airport.

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Sep 9th 2022, 11:41 AM

# The Troubles

Service to mark 50 years since Claudy bombing in Northern Ireland

Nine people were killed and 30 injured when three car bombs exploded on July 31 1972.

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Jul 31st 2022, 8:20 AM

# Northern Ireland

'Utterly shameful' Troubles legacy legislation clears the House of Commons

MPs voted 282 to 217 to give the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill a third reading.

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Jul 5th 2022, 8:17 AM

# 1974

Name of baby Martha O'Neill added to Dublin and Monaghan bombings memorial on Talbot St

Baby Martha O’Neill was stillborn three months after the bombings on 17 May 1974.

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Jun 22nd 2022, 12:08 PM

# The Troubles

Ballymurphy Massacre: Families receive 'significant damages' in court case against UK government

Ten people, including a mother of eight and a Catholic priest, were killed in the British Army shootings.

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Jun 13th 2022, 11:50 AM

# Northern Ireland

Coveney has 'serious concerns' around new Troubles amnesty legislation

The proposals are almost universally opposed by political parties across the UK and Ireland as well as victims’ groups.

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May 18th 2022, 5:35 PM

# Amnesty

UK Government set to bring forward Troubles legacy proposals

It comes the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Northern Ireland in a bid to restore power-sharing.

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May 17th 2022, 7:35 AM

# The Troubles

Tweaked Troubles amnesty plan met with opposition

Under UK Government proposals, immunity for Troubles-related crime will depend on co-operation with an information retrieval body.

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May 11th 2022, 9:59 AM

# newspaper reporters

Journalists Vincent Browne and Henry Kelly urged to help Belfast Troubles inquest

Browne has said he was “totally unaware” of any efforts made by a Belfast coroner to contact him in relation to the inquest.

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Apr 27th 2022, 5:35 PM

# Derry

Judge quashes decision not to proceed with Soldier F Bloody Sunday prosecution

Bloody Sunday families had challenged a number of decisions not to prosecute taken by the PPS.

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Mar 23rd 2022, 4:16 PM

# Aimee Mackin

'It’s probably similar to what’s happening in Ukraine' - growing up in the North during conflict

‘We were playing football in the garden and the British soldiers were walking up the road across from us because there was a barracks close enough to where I live.’

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Mar 12th 2022, 6:58 AM

# Collusion

RUC 'deliberately destroyed' files on Sean Graham bookmakers massacre

Eight loyalist attacks attributed to the UDA or its Ulster Freedom Fighters cover name have been examined in an ombudsman’s report.

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Feb 8th 2022, 11:39 AM

# 50TH ANNIVERSARY

'A terrible atrocity': Thousands attend Bloody Sunday memorial to remember victims

Several events are taking place in Derry to commemorate victims on the 50th anniversary of the massacre.

Relatives of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday attended a remembrance walk to honour those who died

Micheál Martin took part in the remembrance walk and laid a wreath at a ceremony held afterwards

President Higgins will later say the tragic events of 50 years ago today "reverberated across this island and around the world"

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Jan 30th 2022, 7:33 PM

# Derry

Michael D Higgins, Micheál Martin and Jeremy Corbyn to feature in Bloody Sunday commemorations

Micheál Martin will lay a wreath at the memorial to the victims of the tragedy.

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Jan 27th 2022, 12:49 PM

All time

# The Troubles

Decommissioning demands during first IRA ceasefire ‘were pointless’

Senior security figures told Irish officials two months before the ceasefire ended that the insistence on prior decommissioning was unnecessary.

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Dec 29th 2021, 2:25 PM

# Peace Process

John Hume 'literally cried on Martin McGuinness's shoulder' amid health concerns in 1994

The SDLP leader later retired from public life after 40 years as an activist.

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Dec 29th 2021, 12:02 AM

# The Troubles

UK Supreme Court rules PSNI decision not to investigate Hooded Men case was unlawful

The ‘Hooded Men’ were detained and subjected to extreme interrogation methods in 1971.

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Dec 15th 2021, 8:00 PM

Voices

Patrick Kielty: The past left trauma on all sides, but the future of this whole island looks bright

The comedian and broadcaster shares the text of his stirring speech made at the Shared Island Forum earlier this week.

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Dec 15th 2021, 9:10 AM

# What could have been

'I don't think I've quite forgiven them for what they stole from me'

In April 1987, an IRA car bomb killed two people and ended the career of Ulster flanker Nigel Carr, who was driving to Ireland training with two team-mates.

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Dec 11th 2021, 7:00 AM

# Northern Ireland

Experts say UK government's plans for 'official' Troubles history would be 'almost impossible'

The proposal was first reported last weekend.

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Nov 20th 2021, 8:00 PM

# Belfast

Trial of former British soldier for Troubles killing is adjourned after he's taken to hospital

Dennis Hutchings is charged with the attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham in Co Tyrone in 1974.

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Oct 15th 2021, 12:41 PM

# Dennis Hutchings

British Army veteran challenges admissibility of document in Troubles trial

The former soldier’s trial also heard from a war veteran and former MP who described the defendant as the epitome of the best class of officer.

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Oct 11th 2021, 6:52 PM

# The Troubles

Operation Kenova interim report into Troubles era murders to be published

It is reviewing a number of historic offences which occurred during the Troubles including more than 200 murders.

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Sep 30th 2021, 8:18 AM

# The Troubles

Former British soldier to stand trial over Troubles-era killing of Aidan McAnespie

A cousin of Aidan McAnespie said today’s decision came as a “relief” to the family.

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Aug 20th 2021, 10:18 PM

# The North

Stormont politicians reject UK government plans for Troubles 'amnesty'

The Assembly was recalled from its summer recess as anger grows over proposals to deal with legacy in NI.

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Jul 20th 2021, 5:26 PM

# Classified Documents

Tony Blair's 1997 Famine message was ghost-written by aides as he couldn't be contacted

The 1997 speech, marking the 150th anniversary of the Famine, did not have input from the then-Prime Minister, files show.

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Jul 20th 2021, 9:13 AM

# The North

NI political leaders hold ‘robust’ talks, co-chaired by Coveney, on Troubles legacy plans

Stormont is to be recalled on Tuesday to debate plans for a statute of limitations on Troubles crimes.

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Jul 16th 2021, 2:25 PM

# Nothern Ireland

Anger over UK government’s plan to ban Troubles prosecutions continues to grow

A former chief constable said the plans for a statute of limitations did not sit comfortably with him.

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Jul 15th 2021, 6:49 PM

# Northern Ireland

Johnson's claim that halting prosecutions will 'draw a line under the Troubles' provokes outcry

The proposed Troubles amnesty has been labelled the “mother and father of all cover-ups”.

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Jul 15th 2021, 12:00 PM

# The Troubles

Coveney says Irish politicians have 'different view' to UK on ending Troubles prosecutions

Foreign Affairs minister Simon Coveney said: “This is not a fait accompli.”

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Jul 14th 2021, 11:02 AM