Shooting crows : mass murder, state collusion and press freedom /
Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down was no exception. But two miles down the road, three men with no interest in Ire...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newbridge, Ireland :
Merrion Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down was no exception. But two miles down the road, three men with no interest in Ireland's footballing progress were planning a deadly massacre. Shortly after halftime ,they burst through the door of the bar and opened fire, spraying bullets indiscriminately. As they fled the scene, six innocent men lay dead or dying. In 2017, journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey produced a groundbreaking documentary, No Stone Unturned, about Loughinisland and allegations of collusion between the RUC and the loyalist terrorists behind the attack. However, it was Birney and McCaffrey, not the perpetrators of violence who then found themselves the target of PSNI anger. Shooting Crows tells a shocking story of collusion and betrayal, and of a State still willing to corrupt justice and persecute the innocent to hide the sins of its past. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 328, [8] pages of plates, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785375255 1785375253 |