@freestateirl
Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning
3 months
As he locked up Bellaghy Wolfe Tone GAA Club in May 1997, Sean Brown was murdered by loyalist gunmen.  The sense of injustice has deepened since the British Government passed the Legacy Act last year.  This week, a High Court judge (1/4)
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@freestateirl
Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning
3 months
Mr Justice Kinney was so appalled by the behaviour of the state that he pulled the plug on the inquest and recommended a public inquiry. This on the day the inquest was told that surveillance of a leading suspect had mysteriously been suspended on the day of the murder. (2/4)
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@freestateirl
Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning
3 months
Among those present at the inquest was the new GAA president Jarlath Burns, a man who has embraced his Protestant neighbours, vocally supported the PSNI before it was popular and is as happy at Windsor park as he is in Croke park (unless Armagh are playing). (3/4)
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@freestateirl
Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning
3 months
On Free State, Joe and Dion look at the case and the relentless search for justice 🎧 now via (4/4)
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@shaun_iris82882
Irish Shaun
3 months
@freestateirl @dionfanning @JoeBrolly1993 Powerful episode today fellas. I felt sad, angry, but hopeful and thankful at the end. Joe was right in saying that this will never happen again.
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@DamianM60683298
Damian Martin
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@snoxyy14
paddy fox
3 months
@freestateirl @dionfanning @JoeBrolly1993 Our inquest is going the same way Joe. No disclosure even though it was ordered to be handed over 7 years ago. They’re just running the clock down.
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@city_hall13
uncle andy
3 months
@freestateirl @dionfanning @JoeBrolly1993 How many innocent men woman and children where murdered by the IRA many of them where innocent catholics
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@RusBradburd
Rus Bradburd - author of "Big Time" - a novel
3 months
@freestateirl @dionfanning @JoeBrolly1993 @freestateirl @JoeBrolly1993 Joe, can you post the Seamus Heaney poem about Sean Brown here? Thanks, good show....
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