While both men spent time in prison for lesser offences, but they “got away with murder”.Slugger does not get any funding and relies on readers like you for support. All episodes of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History. Wright was being fed targeting information. In tonight’s programme he speaks about an aborted operation a year earlier in which he was instructed to kill any male in the house, whether one of the three targeted brothers or not.McAuley explains: “We’ve been told by two senior security sources that Billy Wright was an agent. Whether I still think that, that’s debatable.”Dame Nuala O’Loan tells Spotlight: “if that evidence had been available, it would have changed a lot of things … I’d want to go back and see what else could be found …”There’s a question of whether – and how many of – the Mid-Ulster UVF were being protected from prosecution as state agents? The police stated that there were no admissions in the files.However, Spotlight’s examination of loyalist murders between 1987 and 1994 points to a cluster of people – more than half – apparently targeted because they were related to republicans. The penultimate episode of Spotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History asks why some UVF members of a Mid-Ulster gang escaped prosecution, and whether there was a deliberate loyalist strategy to kill family members of committed republicans during the late 1980s and early 1990s, during what is described as “the final burst of violence” before the ceasefires? Spotlight on the Troubles: a Secret History (BBC One NI and BBC Four, Tue 10 Sep) Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 6, 2019, 1:42 am 442 Comments | Readers 13436.
How the IRA's war stopped after 25 years of conflict. It’s a hard word to decipher, regret. That relationship was spoiled by fatal errors and calculated acts of violence. At the time, the murders were reported as a random attack, “just targeting anyone perceived as Catholic and by doing so terrorising a whole community”. Behind The Scenes.
Three key Mid-Ulster UVF gunmen are named in the Spotlight programme: Mark Fulton (deceased), Laurence Maguire (interviewed) and a third man who has never been charged with any terrorist offence, but Maguire reckons was responsible for 10-15 murders.Reporter Mandy McAuley speaks to the Cairns family. Use the HTML below. The Cairns brothers’ cousin Sheena Campbell was “a leading light in Sinn Féin”, murdered a year before.Maguire says that Billy Wright provided him with the targets.
The arrival of the British Army in August 1969 brought a respite, and the soldiers were enthusiastically greeted as protectors by many nationalists. Wright himself claimed that he was targeting those whom the state could not.McAuley speaks to Laurence Maguire, who in 1994 was convicted of directing terrorism: 41 offences including 5 murders. Fly-on-the-wall film about investigative journalists uncovering the past's secrets. 7 / 7 The End Game. Fifty years after troops were sent onto the streets of Northern Ireland, a leading team of investigative journalists uncover secrets about the decades-long conflict that claimed more than 3,700 lives. The arrival of the British Army in August 1969 brought a break in the conflict, and the soldiers were greeted as protectors by many nationalists. It was the deadliest month of The Troubles since the 1970s, with 24 people dying in a single week. Home > Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History > Series 1 « TV Series Page Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History: Series 1 (2019 - 2020) The Spotlight team traces how, in the 1960s, suspicion led to unrest between unionists and nationalists, undermining Northern Ireland's government. Fly-on-the-wall film about investigative journalists uncovering the past's secrets. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.A woman affected by dementia struggles to solve the disappearance of her friend.Documentary about Dolours Price, one of very few women who rose to the top of the IRA and who was involved in bombings during the Troubles in the 1970s.Two brothers accidentally run over and kill an old man.
Both sources say he was working for police and military.” The precise nature of his work for the security services is unknown. The arrival of the British Army in August 1969 brought a break in the conflict, and the soldiers were greeted as protectors by many nationalists. New information about Martin McGuinness’s role at that time is brought to light, and the episode concludes with the destruction of the Northern Ireland government, a moment when IRA members believed they were about to force the British Army out of Northern Ireland. Tells the story of the spiral of Northern Ireland into violence in the late 1960s, the attempts of the British Government to get control of the situation, the growth of …
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