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A formal apology by Boris Johnson in the House of Commons to the families of the Ballymurphy victims has been branded “not sincere or complete”. Opening Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson read out the names of the victims killed in west Belfast 50 years ago in shootings involving British soldiers. The Prime Minister added to MPs: “On behalf of successive governments, and to put on the record in this House, I’d like to say sorry to their families for how the investigations were han...

A formal apology by Boris Johnson in the House of Commons to the families of the Ballymurphy victims has been branded “not sincere or complete”. Opening Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson read out the names of the victims killed in west Belfast 50 years ago in shootings involving British soldiers. The Prime Minister added to MPs: “On behalf of successive governments, and to put on the record in this House, I’d like to say sorry to their families for how the investigations were han...

A formal apology by Boris Johnson in the House of Commons to the families of the Ballymurphy victims has been branded “not sincere or complete”. Opening Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson read out the names of the victims killed in west Belfast 50 years ago in shootings involving British soldiers. The Prime Minister added to MPs: “On behalf of successive governments, and to put on the record in this House, I’d like to say sorry to their families for how the investigations were han...

If the IRA was fighting a war, its enemies should get an amnesty Northern Ireland should draw a line in a national act of contrition about an hour ago Desmond Rea The aftermath of an explosion at the Europa Hotel, Belfast, in April 1972. File photograph: Ciaran Donnelly   In what would seem to have been a well-informed leak, the Times of London of May 6th stated in two subhe...

FREE speech and freedom of expression are under attack from the Conservative government.   Historically the left has been the champion of these rights against governments and states which have tried to constrain dissent through legislation and delegitimisation. The Johnson government has already passed laws and is proposing new laws which will restrict freedom of expression.   This is a matter of concern for the whole trade union and labour movement. It is time to reaffirm the left’s tradit...

  The Government is fully committed “to seek out the truth” behind the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and to secure some measure of comfort for the victim’s families and the survivors, Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has said. Commenting on the 47th anniversary of the bombings which killed 33 people Ms Humphreys said” we will continue in our work to develop and establish effective ways to address the legacy of the troubles, including implementation of measur...

Despite Johnson’s cack-handed response to Ballymurphy inquest, a path can be found

Follow RT on The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologised on behalf of the government for the killings of nine Northern Irish people in 1971, after a judge ruled they were totally innocent and not paramilitaries, as previously claimed. In a statement, Downing Street said the PM described the findings about the killings, known as the Ballymurphy massacre, as "deeply sad" and "tragic." "The Prime Minister apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK Government for the events that t...

Elaine Byrne: Ballymurphy shows us the power of the past can never be dismissed Last weeks verdict that the ten people killed by the British Army in August 1971 were innocent of wrongdoing was a reminder that in the North, some things just don’t go away 16th May, 2021 For half a century, the Ballymurphy families have had to persevere in their campaign for justice against a mindset – on both sides of the border, and across the Irish Sea – that told them the past was...

British Army found to have massacred unarmed civilians in Ballymurphy, Northern Ireland, in August 1971 A long-delayed inquest into the shooting deaths of 10 people in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland has concluded that all were civilians, posed no threat to anyone, were unarmed and that nine of them were shot by the British Army. Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan could not definitively identify the origin of the bullet that shot the tenth person. The verdict was welcomed by relativ...