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A former RUC chief constable who served during some of the most violent years of the Troubles believed that a united Ireland was inevitable, according to a new book.
Sir Jack Hermon, who served as Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) between 1980 and 1989, was strongly against any further integration of Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom, according to a posthumous memoir by senior British diplomat David Goodall. The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 details a meeting with Hermon in January 1984, when the then-RUC chief revealed his thoughts on a united Ireland.
Read more In the long term, he thought the unification of Ireland in some form or other was inevitable, and he was strongly against any further integration of the province into the United Kingdom, Goodall wrote in the memoir.
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A High Court judge is to deliver a ruling in a legal challenge to the Government’s decision not to hold a public inquiry into the Omagh bombing.
Campaigners launched the action in 2013 in an attempt to force an inquiry into the Real IRA atrocity in 1998 which killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
It was the worst single atrocity of the Northern Ireland conflict.
The long-running case concluded more than two years ago, and Mr Justice Mark Horner will deliver his judgment on Friday.
Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was killed in the blast, launched the judicial review after former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers decided not to order a public inquiry.