Between Monday the 9th and Wednesday the 11th of August 1971, the Parachute Regiment of the British Army murdered eleven Irish civilians in the Ballymurphy district of Belfast. Among the victims was a mother of eight, Joan Connolly, gunned down by military snipers as she went to the aid of a wounded teenager, eventually bleeding to death from multiple injuries as she lay in the street. Several months later that same elite unit of Britain’s armed forces would attack a civil rights march in the city of Derry on Sunday the 30th of January 1972, this time killing fourteen men and boys.
The linked atrocities were known as the Ballymurphy and Bloody Sunday Massacres and a new documentary film, The Ballymurphy Precedent, examines the initial war crime. Those who suffered it, those who inflicted it and those who tried to conceal it.
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
Strangely enough, I just re-read this article…
https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2018/05/licence-to-deceive/
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Incredible isn’t it? The Irish press is like the proverbial rock. It doesn’t do to lift it, unless you are prepared for what squirms underneath. The latest twists in the IN&M scandal provides proof of that!
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Quite an eye opener but consistent with the difficulty of discerning the ‘Truth’ in today’s world. The old saying that truth is the first casualty of war still rings true.
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The Parachute Regiment was set up to go in and destroy, they were the modern version of the Black and Tans and deliberately used to create fear and terror .
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