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‘His death is like the disappearance of a great house, a Malton-like edifice fallen away’

In a extract from David Burke's book, "Kitson's Irish War", a former paratrooper who was to testify at the Saville Inquiry was paid an unwelcome visit

BBC News Published image copyrightPA image captionBernard McGuigan was one of 13 civil rights demonstrators to die when the Army opened fire in Londonderry in January 1972 The family of a man shot dead on Bloody Sunday have lodged a legal challenge against a decision not to charge a former soldier with his murder. Bernard McGuigan, known as Barney, was one of the 13 people killed when the Army opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry in 1972. His family are challenging the decision not to prosecute an ex-paratrooper known as Soldier F. He has been charged with murder over two ...

Irish government tried to get Bloody Sunday judicial inquiry in 1997 File photo dated 30/01/1972 of an injured man receiving treatment on Bloody Sunday. Picture from Press Association Éamon Phoenix 30 December, 2020 00:01 THE Irish government continued its efforts in 1997 to get a fresh judicial inquiry into Bloody Sunday in Derry. Declassified files from a meeting of the Joint Anglo-Irish Secretariat on February 27, 1997, show that an Irish official sought a complete list of witness statements taken by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Associat...