IRA bombing campaign

Hyde Park bombing suspect will not be prosecuted

Turgon on February 25, 2014, 8:49 pm

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The BBC are reporting that John Downey who was arrested and charged with killing four soldiers in the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing will not be prosecuted because he was given a guarantee he would not face trial. Downey was arrested in 2013 at Gatwick whilst en route to Greece. From the BBC: ..over the course of legal argument, he asked the Old Bailey to halt the prosecution – saying he had received a clear written assurance from the government …

IRA’s bombing campaign aimed at weakening “awkward minority in a brave new Ireland”?

Mick Fealty on June 8, 2012, 1:48 pm

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Newton Emerson began his column for the Irish News yesterday with an allusion to another sizeable elephant stuffed into the corner of Northern Ireland’s tiny room: the nature and purpose of the IRA’s extensive bombing campaign towards the end of the conflict: …it remains poorly understood and is the subject of almost no study. Perhaps there is an academic prejudice against bourgeois property every bit as much as the bias towards examining ‘state actors’. And: In 1992 with the Hume-Adams …