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At this stage the committee did not seem to see any contradiction between the need for a non-denominational site and the use of St John’s, an Anglican church. Their main concern was the likely cost, which, if all the names were to be engraved on brass, would be ‘considerable’. As an alternative, Lt Col Evill suggested a smaller brass plate inside the church with the words ‘To the memory of officers and men of the 1st Monmouthshire regiment who fell etc.’ plus, underneath the pla...

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...