Murder of a GAA Chairman

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Anyone watch this documentary on RTE tonight.

Chilling stuff.

[Wildweasel74]

How does the police expect anybody to believe cameras weren't in operation at Toome RUC Station that night at the time.

[marty34]

Great dignity shown by the Brown family for nearly 30 years. Going to Belfast courts and being foistered off each time by a drip drip approach.

Brits think time will ease the hunger for truth and justice.

So many questions arise from that excellent show.  Why was the main suspect tracked and then let go for a few hours, then tracked again the next day?

[straightred]

Great dignity shown by the Brown family for nearly 30 years. Going to Belfast courts and being foistered off each time by a drip drip approach.

Brits think time will ease the hunger for truth and justice.

So many questions arise from that excellent show.  Why was the main suspect tracked and then let go for a few hours, then tracked again the next day?

The Brits were up to their necks in it. Probably to the highest level. They'll never let the truth come out

[marty34]

Great dignity shown by the Brown family for nearly 30 years. Going to Belfast courts and being foistered off each time by a drip drip approach.

Brits think time will ease the hunger for truth and justice.

So many questions arise from that excellent show.  Why was the main suspect tracked and then let go for a few hours, then tracked again the next day?

The Brits were up to their necks in it. Probably to the highest level. They'll never let the truth come out

That's what this Legacy Bill is all about. End of.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Great dignity shown by the Brown family for nearly 30 years. Going to Belfast courts and being foistered off each time by a drip drip approach.

Brits think time will ease the hunger for truth and justice.

So many questions arise from that excellent show.  Why was the main suspect tracked and then let go for a few hours, then tracked again the next day?

The Brits were up to their necks in it. Probably to the highest level. They'll never let the truth come out

The redactions say it all. Basturts

[Itchy]

Stuff like this should be on the leaving cert. A very dirty war was run in the North against Nationalists and its about time people in the south especially were educated on that fact.

[johnnycool]

I think we all know what was happening back then but to see it put out there yet again how Loyalist paramilitaries acted with total impunity, aided and abetted by "state agents" both in uniform and without uniform.

To hand someone a report with almost every page blackened out tells you all you need to know about how the British Gov, the RUC/PSNI and the Army would treat any truth and reconciliation commission.

This isn't rewriting the history of the troubles here, it's now shining a light on what really went on.

[Sportacus]

A very important programme, capturing very important testimonies.  Nothing but admiration for the family. I do believe that in time a lot more will be learned, but with evidence not gathered or destroyed, and some actors taking their dirty secrets to the grave, getting the whole truth could be difficult.

Not the most important issue by any means, but hearing how the two RUC men conducted themselves at the house really stuck in my throat, asking the wee girl why she was crying. Says it all.

[JoG2]

A very important programme, capturing very important testimonies.  Nothing but admiration for the family. I do believe that in time a lot more will be learned, but with evidence not gathered or destroyed, and some actors taking their dirty secrets to the grave, getting the whole truth could be difficult.

Not the most important issue by any means, but hearing how the two RUC men conducted themselves at the house really stuck in my throat, asking the wee girl why she was crying. Says it all.

Born into hate, reared to hate and joined a police force to enact hate on those not seen as their equals.

[Milltown Row2]

Haven't watched this but will give it a go later, can only imagine what the family are going through reliving this over again and again.

Would love to know how many agents there were used over the years

[LeoMc]

I knew a lot of the story but what got me was the State going after the Coroner, a respected senior judge, for revealing to the families the number of state agents involved.

[NAG1]

Powerful programme but don't think anything that wasn't already in the public domain came out of it. Still very important for the family to keep this in the headlines and keep the pressure on.

Wasn't only the cameras on the police station in Toome that weren't working that night, some of the 'locals' in Bellaghy also had mysterious malfunctions.

Horrible times.

[Itchy]

Haven't watched this but will give it a go later, can only imagine what the family are going through reliving this over again and again.

Would love to know how many agents there were used over the years

In this case there were 25 suspects, many of whom were state agents. That's a quote from the coroner. The British are taking legal action against the same coroner for revealing that detail.