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Limericks Live 95 Search By Live95 News Team via Getty Images A coroner has ruled that ten people killed at Ballymurphy in west Belfast five decades ago were "entirely innocent" A corner has found that the use of lethal force by the British Army was not justified. The families of the 10 people killed in Ballymurphy in Belfast have been fighting for answers for 50 years. It had been suggested that some of those who died wer...

  While Tuesday’s inquests’ verdicts were the public vindication the Ballymurphy families had hoped for, they should never have been necessary. “It should not have taken 50 years to have an inquest which asked questions that should have been asked back in 1971,” said Carmel Quinn. Her brother, John Laverty, was one of 10 people shot and fatally injured in this part of west Belfast in the violence which followed the introduction of internment on August 9th, 1971. The coro...

A corner has found that the use of lethal force by the British Army was not justified. The families of the 10 people killed in Ballymurphy in Belfast have been fighting for answers for 50 years. It had been suggested that some of those who died were involved with paramilitary activities, which was why soldiers opened fire. That myth was dispelled at the inquest today, which found all those shot were innocent. The verdict has since been hailed by Foreign Affairs minister Simon Coveney as “hist...

Allegations of provocation, violence and brutality have been made by residents of the Lower Falls area of Belfast against troops of the Green Jackets Regiment who swept through the area on Tuesday afternoon. Yesterday the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Mr Gerry Fitt, MP, said he intended to raise the matter with the British Defence Secretary, Lord Carrington. Mr Fitt, in a statement, said that the Army was “playing the Faulkner regime game of attempting to force the me...

Civilians shot dead by the British army in Ballymurphy in 1971 in what came to be known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. Top row, from left, Joseph Corr, Danny Teggart, Eddie Doherty, Fr Hugh Mullan and Frank Quinn. Bottom row from left, Joan Connolly, John McKerr, Noel Phillips, John Laverty and Joseph Murphy The 10 victims of fatal shootings involving the British Army in the Ballymurphy Massacre 50 years ago "were entirely innocent of any wrongdoings on the day in question," Mrs Justice Siobha...

Relatives gather to hear findings of the inquest into the Ballymurphy Massacre Civilians shot dead by the British army in Ballymurphy in 1971 in what came to be known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. Top row, from left, Joseph Corr, Danny Teggart, Eddie Doherty, Fr Hugh Mullan and Frank Quinn. Bottom row from left, Joan Connolly, John McKerr, Noel Phillips, John Laverty and Joseph Murphy Rebecca Black, PA and Digital Staff 11 May, 2021 01:42 ...

A second bullet, in his leg, killed him. “He wasn’t any threat to anyone. He was on the ground.” Their mother had spent the previous night comforting the mother of another of the victims, Noel Philips (19), who lived across the street. “Mrs Philips was broken-hearted, and my poor wee mummy didn’t realise that she was going to be exactly the same way within 24 hours,” says Rita. “The Ballymurphy community went through hell on earth. There’s not a family ha...

What was the Ballymurphy massacre and who are the 10 who died? Coronor to deliver findings into 1971 atrocity by British army in west Belfast Mon, May 10, 2021, 02:04 Danny Teggart one of the 10 people shot in the Ballymurphy massacre in 1971 Joseph Murphy who was shot dead in the Ballymurphy Massacre in 1971 Joan Connolly, a mother of eight who was shot dead in the Ballymurphy massacre in 1971 The 11th victim: Paddy McCarthy died of a heart attack, now the subject of the inquest John ...

Troubles troops amnesty announcement timed for day of Ballymurphy Massacre inquest conclusion Civilians shot dead by the British army in Ballymurphy in 1971 in what came to be known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. Top row, from left, Joseph Corr, Danny Teggart, Eddie Doherty, Fr Hugh Mullan and Frank Quinn. Bottom row from left, Joan Connolly, John McKerr, Noel Phillips, John Laverty and Joseph Murphy Ian Knox cartoon 7/5/21  THE British government’s plan to announce a bar o...

By David Burke. Kitson (right) was given numerous awards and served as aide de camp to Queen Elizabeth in the 1980s. The denial of justice for political gain. Next week will see the release of the long-awaited inquest report into the Ballymurphy massacre during which British soldiers killed a large number of unarmed civilians in Belfast. The atrocity took place after the introduction of internment in August of 1971. A documentary entitled ‘The Ballymurphy Precedent’ will be broadcast on Cha...