Shankill Bombing

Nigel Dodds Calls For The Truth Over Shankill Bombing

Kris Nixon (Belfast Barman) on January 28, 2016, 11:30 am

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In a statement regarding Allison Morris’s Irish News story of prior police knowledge and inaction of the Shankill bombing, Nigel Dodds MP, DUP deputy leader, said: “The mass sectarian murder of the Shankill Bomb was one of the most heinous acts perpetrated by the Provisional IRA. It was a premeditated slaughter of innocents, an event that stands out amongst the PIRA’s more than 1800 bloody murders. Recent newspaper claims have refocused attention on this horrific act. Some of what has …

“Almost a year ago, there was an effort to push this information into the public domain.”

Mick Fealty on January 27, 2016, 5:40 pm

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So, this is intriguing. Brian Rowan has some interesting background detail on the big Irish News front page spread earlier in the week… On Monday, there was another development when The Irish News correspondent Allison Morris reported that the IRA commander behind the 1993 Shankill bombing was a police informant – ‘Agent AA’ – who had told his handlers of the plan. It is reported that he was identified when the IRA decoded the stolen Castlereagh documents. Almost a year ago, there …