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Ballymurphy families vindicated - Mary Lou McDonald TD Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has described todays inquest verdict as a vindication of the campaign of the families of all those killed by members of the Parachute Regiment in Ballymurphy 50 years ago. She said, however, that today will be bittersweet as the British government will now attempt to block justice by walking away from their agreement with the Irish government on dealing with the past. Teachta McDonald said: In August...

‘Entirely innocent’ Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he was never in any doubt about the Ballymurphy killings “that these innocents were killed without any justification and that they were entirely innocent”. He said in the Dáil that there remained “enormous personal grief and sense of loss that is renewed when intensive media attention returns to a case like this”. “It’s been a very harrowing experience for relatives and there have been many false daw...

BBC News By Colm Kelpie media captionA priest and a mother of eight were among the 10 people killed at Ballymurphy Ten people killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were "entirely innocent", an inquest has found. The inquest, which began in November 2018, examined the deaths in and around the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in August 1971. The shootings happened after an operation in which paramilitary suspects were detained without trial. Victims included...

Joseph Murphy who was shot dead in the Ballymurphy Massacre in 1971 “The evidence establishes that the deceased were unarmed and posing no threat. They were innocent people,” said Mrs Justice Keegan. Each of the deceased were shot by the British army who were stationed in the nearby Henry Taggart Hall. Mrs Justice Keegan said it was “very unfortunate” she had not heard accounts from soldiers involved on the day and that no one explained the military response which led to...

British soldiers shot dead innocent N.Irish people in 1971 incident FM Simon Coveney described the event as one of the most tragic days of Northern Irelands three decades of bloodshed Reuters May 11, 2021 Family members of Frank Quinn arrive to listen to the findings of the report into the fatal shootings of 10 people in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast in 1971 that involved the British Army, at an inquest held at the International Conference Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 11, 2021.Fa...

Rita Bonner, sister of a victim John Laverty, arrives to listen to the findings of the report into the fatal shootings of 10 people in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast in 1971 that involved the British Army, at an inquest held at the International Conference Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne BELFAST (Reuters) -British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in the deaths of nine of the 10 innocent people killed in a 1971 incident in Be...

United KingdomBritish Army killed innocent civilians in Belfast in 1971 -inquiry Reuters 1/6 Family members of Frank Quinn arrive to listen to the findings of the report into the fatal shootings of 10 people in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast in 1971 that involved the British Army, at an inquest held at the International Conference Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Read More British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in the deat...

); Ballymurphy inquests: Use of lethal force by British Army in 1971 shootings not justified, coroner rules The shooting of 10 people over three days in west Belfast in 1971 has become known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. By Press Association Tuesday 11 May 2021, 2:40 PM Tue 2:02 PM 36,748 Views 28 Comments Families arriving at the the Internati...

Coveney praises truth as politicians react to inquest Updated / Tuesday, 11 May 2021 23:18 Mural on a wall in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast where the shooting of 10 civilians took place in 1971 Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the coroners statement on the Ballymurphy killings has "cast a tremendous new light on one of the darkest pages of the history of the conflict". Mr Coveney was reacting to the conclusion of the inquest that found that all of the ten people who w...

A Northern Ireland inquest found that British soldiers killed unarmed innocent civilians in a massacre in Belfast during three chaotic days in 1971, foreshadowing the horrors of Bloody Sunday six months later. Relatives of victims arrive for the inquest into the Ballymurphy shooting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) (CN) — A Northern Irish high court judge on Tuesday declared that British soldiers fatally shot innocent civilians, among them a mother of eight ...