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A Border priest who was one of the guests at Queen’s University Belfast’s ‘Agreement 25’ events earlier this week was delighted to be…

An Garda Síochána have released new details in hopes of identifying some of those who may have had involvement in the Belturbet, Clones and…

On 28th December 1972, three no warning bombs exploded in • Belturbet, Co Cavan • Clones, Co. Monaghan • Mullnagoad, Pettigo, Co. ...

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A FORMER Fermanagh Unionist Councillor has been described as “a leading member of the UDA” who enlisted the help of a British Army officer to enable the Loyalist paramilitary group blow up Aghalane Bridge in 1972. Jack Leahy, a well-known publican in Lisnaskea and a member of the Ulster Unionist group on Fermanagh District Council, was identified by Captain Vernon Rees in an audio interview taped by the Imperial War Museum. Rees admitted that he agreed to Leahy’s request to keep tro...

Family of Offaly teenager killed by bomb still seeking justice after nearly 50 years Reporter: 17 Dec 2020 RIGHT: Patrick Stanley was only 16 when he was killed in a bomb blast in Belturbet, Co Cavan on December 28, 1972. );  ); THE family of a 16-year-old Clara teenager who died in a bomb blast in Belturbet, Co Cavan on December 28, 1972, are still fighting for justice for their brother 47 years later. An RTE Investigates programme which aired last Monday night told the story of Patrick ...

Political Correspondent Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told the Dáil that he will pursue both the British and Northern Irish authorities regarding the no-warning car-bomb attack on Belturbet, Co Cavan, in which two teenage civilians were murdered in 1972.  Loyalist paramilitaries were responsible for the bombing which killed Geraldine OReilly, 15, and Paddy Stanley, 16. However there have also been allegations of collusion by British security forces in the attack.  Mr Martin told the Dáil th...

The Belturbet bomb: an atrocity that time forgot RTÉ Investigates has uncovered a series of new details that shed light on a 1972 car bombing that killed two teenagers in Co Cavan. • 3 Feb 2021 RTÉ Investigates Sculptor Mel French regards the bronze statue in Belturbet as her most personal project. Two handsome figures – a long-haired schoolgirl with dancing shoes and an athletic young man with a football at his feet – face out onto Main Street. These sculptures represent two teenagers...

RTÉ Investigates A military commander of British Army forces in west Fermanagh admitted to cooperating with loyalist paramilitaries in the 1972 bombing of a bridge spanning the border between Co Cavan and Co Fermanagh, RTÉ Investigates has learned. The Aghalane Bridge had been used by IRA units in a series of 1972 raids into South Fermanagh that targeted security forces, particularly local members of the Ulster Defence Regiment.  In a 2005 oral history interview with the Imperial War Museum...

Bombing that killed Offaly teenager to feature on RTE Investigates Reporter: );  ); In 1972, just three days after Christmas, a no-warning car bomb killed two teenagers and injured nine others in Belturbet Co.Cavan.  In a special documentary next Monday night, December 14, RTÉ Investigates uncovers a crippling lack of trust between police services north and south, questions the political will to bring those behind the Belturbet bomb to justice, and reveals new evidence that British secu...